For many parents the summer is a carefree time when keeping tabs on your kids is as easy as sending them to summer camp, or having them accompany you on a family vacation to a Old West desert mining town where the only danger is boarded up, abandoned mine shafts. But as the toasty weather Read the Rest…

Treasure hunters became rescuers last week, when two Geocachers stumbled upon two stranded women in the deserts of the Western US. Roy Joseph and Paul Fox were “geocaching” in their off-road jeep on the Colorado-Utah border the week of August 25th. As they motored along, they passed a stationary van – an uncommon occurrence in Read the Rest…

There are many ways to break the law, most of which lead a criminal straight to prison. White-collar and non-violent crimes are just as rampant, if not more so, than violent crimes, and yet we choose to punish the offenders the same way: by confining them in dingy prisons controlled by the government. Do carjackers Read the Rest…

It has come up in many a court whether or not tracking a suspect with a GPS tracker is legal. Is it a breach of the fourth amendment? Is a tracker a form of “unreasonable searches”? Need it be dependent on a warrant “upon probable cause supported by Oath or affirmation”? Is it in violation Read the Rest…

  Due to poachers and hunters who use giraffe’s skin to produce cloth, the giraffe population in Western Africa has unfortunately become extremely scarce. They are slowly making their way up the endangered species list, and scientists have had to act quickly. In order to gather more information about these long-necked, majestic creatures of Africa, Read the Rest…

Engineers from Japan have invented a prototype device that places GPS navigation technology into a pair of glasses, which they call a “Wearable Personal Navigation System”. Created at the University of Electro-Communications’ Nakajima Laboratory and displayed in Tokyo at the Wireless Japan 2010 expo, these devices feature a battery powered microcomputer, as well as a Read the Rest…

  Solar storms are extremely powerful natural disasters, and they are able to cause a tremendous amount of economic damage. During a typical solar storm, the sun’s surface flares up and massive fireballs are shot into the Earth’s atmosphere. This often results in the harming of many of the electrical waves back down on earth; Read the Rest…

  Hawksbill turtles are among the most critically endangered species in the world. They used to populate the area around the Gulf Coast, but the BP oil spoil only aggravated their situation. The oil ridden waters have killed thousands of turtles alone, while thousand more have died from starvation and predators. Very few turtles make Read the Rest…

The biggest nightmare that a new mother can have is losing sight of her baby. It may only be for a few seconds, but in that time her baby could be kidnapped. Normally, if a baby is missing at a hospital, that hospital will go on lockdown. This procedure involves sealing off all exits, sounding Read the Rest…

On June 15th, a seven year-old girl was abducted in the middle of a Chuck E. Cheese’s in California. The girl was thankfully wearing a GPS device disguised as a wristwatch, so when the mother realized she wasn’t there and notified the police, they were able to track her down using satellite tracking technology. As Read the Rest…