In several occasions, we see or hear someone telling the sad story of an elder or a child who got lost. The truth is that we don’t even imagine the suffering or despair of their relatives. What do you think about the idea of being able to locate them throughout their shoes? Yes, just as you’re reading it.

As mothers, aunts or sisters, we don’t even imagine the idea of not knowing the exact place, where the little ones are. And some times, even joking, we say. “I wish I could put a GPS on him, he’s so anxious.

And what happens with our elders?, sadly, neurodegenerative illnesses associated with old age, are more frequent. How sad it is to realize that Alzheimer or senile dementia have become part of their minds, they get easily disoriented, forget where they live, and even their names.

This article won’t offer you a cure, neither your grandfather’s illness nor your child’s anxiety, but it offers you an alternative with the help of technology, you may determine the exact location in case of going through a difficult misplacement or disappearance.

A Japanese company, has invented and created a chip that is installs in the user’s shoe sole and that provides his exact position, throughout a GPS device. When entering the coordinates, the chip allows the research’s initiation in case the user gets more than 50mts away from their usual place.

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According to the case, you will receive directly in your smartphone or computer, the message or alert, because of that it allows you to make a searching live and return him to a safe place.

The chip is installed in the left shoe, and obviously, it’s a small device, that is not seen easily and it’s very discrete, because the idea is that neither the user nor other people can detect its presence and try to remove it, which of course will not allow it to achieve its goal.

Originally, the device was created for elder people who suffer mental illness, who according to the numbers of WHO (World Health Organization), each year are higher the numbers of cases. Nevertheless, the use has been extended to children, second in the list of loss cases.

To end this article, leaving a little on side the difficult topic about disappearances and as women always keeping in count that feminine roguery, tell me if now that you know the device while you were reading, haven’t you come with the idea of using one of these chips in you couple’s shoe?. That definitely would be with different intentions and a topic for another article. But, it’s not bad knowing that technology can give us even that.

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