Now I thought this trick using technology that most explor oz's should have was pretty cute and would not have beleived it if it hadn't happened in our family.
First I must relate how different our teenagers look at things from the way we do !
Recently someone posted the very helpful link to Nearmap which in our case
showed hi-res pictures of our neighbourhood only 2 weeks old.
I immediately scanned the area for tracks thru the local park.
My wife noted how a neighbour's extension was implemented.
The kids said Ho-Hum and zoomed in on local burnt-out sites.
So to finding the phone - you might think robin learnt that if you can't find the phone in the house then just dial it and follow the ring ,
well no this trick
of the kids was much more subtle than that and had me wondering just how
clued in to other things they might be.
Well the son loss his phone while out driving getting parts for the car.
Was 2 hours before it was noticed that it was missing (amazing in itself).
Recently in an attempt to use the phone legally while driving I had got them Nuvi 765 gps'es. But the main reason I got this model was because they can record your track , and back tracking is one of our main uses for these devices. The kids always have this feature enabled and know how to use it.
So the search began , carefully and slowly driving out about 6km of bitumen track as stored on the GPS.
But the kids new the Nuvi had one extra feature - Bluetooth.
So with Bluetooth locate enabled the search continued and unbelieveably about
2km from
home the phones ID popped up on the Nuvi's screen and a short ground search found the phone in the gutter about 30m from where it was detected.
Now if only they could learn not to loose the phone in the first place !