Friday, January 10, 2014

Mommy wants to know where her kid is

"Tracking devices make me uneasy, but I have to defer to parental paranoia, which requires knowing where your children are. A watch/tracker/phone, Filip, may help."
I find Filip less odious that most tracking devices. This may be partly because of the bright colors and appealingly goofy oversize design. Available in red, hot pink, bright green and blue, it has a chunky charm.

To use the phone, you install the free Filip app on a parent’s Android or iOS device. Then you link to the Filip itself. You can follow the locations of up to five of the Filip devices. You can also set a “safe zone,” which is the distance a Filip can travel before your phone receives an alert.
A couple of possibilities on why the company settled on the name Filip.

fil·lip
noun
1 something that acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity

2 archaic a movement made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it; a flick of the finger
verb
(fillips, filliping, filliped)
[with object] archaic
propel (a small object) with a flick of the finger 

The Urban "Filip" could not possibly be the source of inspiration for the gadgets name... or could it? 
The very essence of sexyness, has very much money, and makes it rain on them hoes. also likes to wear alot of gold.

Filip also is a word that can also be used instead of "chick magnet" 

15 comments:

edutcher said...

The Blonde has often said, if she had a small child, she'd want a microchip implanted.

This is for kids old enough to theoretically know better, but it's not a bad idea.

Unknown said...

OT: Check out the fast media forgiveness w/ Christie. The 2016 frontrunner, according to the media. He's only the "frontrunner" because they are pimping him.
Axelrod says "...Christie lives to fight another day."
Telling.

Known Unknown said...

HE KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE.

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Unknown said...

The concept is a good one, but it's not practical. Most kids probably object to wearing it and would lose a bracelet that large.

deborah said...

Ed, with microchipped dogs, there's an incidence of cancer at the injection site, or some such. I've had several dogs microchipped, but no such incidence yet.

deborah said...

How long before husbands and wives have each other microchipped? It's just a matter of injecting a rice-sized unit under the skin.

Unknown said...

We all need idiocracy Tattoos. Bar codes to pay for Obamacare.

Unknown said...

Hey Deborah. :)

deborah said...

Hi April :)

Revenant said...

What purpose is this device supposed to serve, exactly?

If the kid wants to do something sneaky, he or she will leave it behind. If an adult wants to abduct them, the *adult* will leave it behind.

john said...

You can fillip buggers, or you can flip burgers. Please don't do both while at work.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Its all in the repetition.

Synova said...

I guess that Rev already mentioned my first thought about this.

Kids do go through a stage where they seem bound and determined to self-destruct... between crawling and age 5. Turn around and *poof* they disappear like Houdini. Even without paranoia about bad-guys I can see how a tracking device would make parents feel a little more secure.

A microchip can be removed when a child is older, but letting parents use kid-leashes without public censure would be just as good an idea.

Lydia said...

letting parents use kid-leashes without public censure would be just as good an idea

Yes!

I’d always thought they were pretty horrible until my grandson became the kind of toddler who was impossible to keep from harm without one. His dashes away from mom or dad were breathtakingly quick. My daughter herself as a toddler was super-sedate in comparison. Anyway, I became a kid-leash convert overnight.