GPS Snitch Tracking Device Review

Tiffany Young: Hi there, welcome to Neo-Fight.TV, a technology show for the not-so-geeky. My name is Tiffany Young. Ben Freedman: And I’m Ben Freedman and today on the show, what are you doing? Tiffany Young: Bore is less. Ben Freedman: Oh! Tiffany Young: Oh! Ben Freedman: This we got over here. This is a little product called the GPS Snitch which if it sounds a little sinister. Tiffany Young: It sounds a little Harry Potter. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: Snitch. Ben Freedman: It is. So this guy, what it is basically it’s a combination, GPS cellphone in one little box. You charge it up. You stick it in your car or somebody’s car and you hide it. Tiffany Young: What do you mean by GPS cellphone? Ben Freedman: What’s GPS? But knows where it is. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: And it’s a cellphone. It’s connected to the cellular network. Tiffany Young: Any cellular network? Ben Freedman: I don’t know which one who used this because they don’t tell you. Tiffany Young: Oh! Ben Freedman: Yeah, some cellular network. Tiffany Young: So it’s a secret. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: So basically what you do is you charge it of, you put in your car or your kid’s car, or your spouse’s car, right. And first of all, it has an alarm. So when it senses motion, it will send a text message to your e-mail or to your phone. So you know the car is in motion. Tiffany Young: Oh! Ben Freedman: That is good in case your car if it gets stolen. If your car ever gets stolen, you instantly get a text message. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: That’s pretty cool, right? Because it knows it’s moving and it’s on the cell network so it can send you a text message. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: Then what you can do is once the car is in motion, you can go to the GPS Snitch website, log on, and it will tell you with the GPS exactly where your car is at that moment. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: So does it actually has to stop adding address though for a certain period of time for that address too? Ben Freedman: No. Even if the car is moving down the highway, it will say your car is here in the highway, it’s doing 60 miles an hour in this direction. Tiffany Young: Does it update like every couple of minutes, every minute. Ben Freedman: It updates every time you hit the refresh button. Tiffany Young: Oh it updates, okay. Ben Freedman: Now, that’s a good point is the way you pay for this, first of all you pay for the unit itself. Tiffany Young: Oh I see, okay. Ben Freedman: The unit is $399.00. Then you have to buy a monthly package of credits and every time you do a track, every time you locate the device, it uses one credit. Tiffany Young: I see. Ben Freedman: So you can get a package that has hundred credits a month or 50 credits a month or 500 credits a month and it’s actually of these ones where you’re just going to be doing it in case your car gets stolen, you don’t need many credits. But if you’re trying to like see if your spouse has step down on you, or something like that, or maybe you know what it’s good for is businesses like you have contractors, you want to know who your contractors are, or at least their vehicles. Tiffany Young: We have this. We have the entire system but they’re hard wired. They’re expensive. They break all the time. People know what they are. They can be disabled Ben Freedman: All right. Tiffany Young: So we pay for that. It’s $200.00 a month. Ben Freedman: Wow! Tiffany Young: You know? Ben Freedman: Okay so this is a lot less and less, $399.00 for this. You're probably looking depending on how often you want to search, $20.00, $30.00, $40.00 a month with the service. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: So depending on again how many times you want to try. But again, for someone who is in the business or if you worry about your kids and where they’re going, you can always have it. You can also set it up on a schedule so you can say every night at 9:00 tell me where my car is or where this is. You didn’t know where you put it. Tiffany Young: I need that when I park at the mall. Where is my car? It’s where I park right here. Ben Freedman: And you could totally do that with this. You can use your phone to figure out where your car is. Tiffany Young: Because it will send you an e-mail. Ben Freedman: It will send you an e-mail. Tiffany Young: Now when you update it. Ben Freedman: Yeah of if your phone has a web browser you can just see exactly using like Google maps. Tiffany Young: So I have a question. I’m waiting for the product to come out that has for example you know how when you call for 11 and they say, I say I’m lost because I get lost all the time. And I’ll say, “Well, just go and find me” and then they ask for permission to find you and they locate you via GPS Ben Freedman: 411 Tiffany Young: Information. Ben Freedman: Yeah, I don’t think if it’s regular 401. It’s not like part of your car’s own start I think Tiffany Young: No, it’s 411. Ben Freedman: 411 could find you. Tiffany Young: Because there’s GPS technology in your phone as long as it’s enabled. Ben Freedman: Well what if your phone doesn’t have GPS? Tiffany Young: As long as you have a phone enabled GPS and you have to make sure it’s enabled. That’s why when we get— Ben Freedman: But now let me ask you this. If you have a phone enabled GPS, can’t the phone tell you where you are? Tiffany Young: The phone can tell you where you are but you’d have to go on. This is the problem. I call 411 if I get lost because my phone can’t tell me. Well it can tell me where I am now but then if I need to get to across street, go north south, turn right, turn left. Ben Freedman: So you want directions. Tiffany Young: I need directions. But I need them to find me and tell me where to go. So anyway, I need help Ben Freedman: I cannot do that. I have an iPhone and you can hit the locate button. It tells you where you are and then you can use the Google map support then. Tiffany Young: Google map. I just discovered that. Ben Freedman: I’d never tried doing it with 411 but 411 will locate you? Tiffany Young: They’ll locate you and it will also locate you in case you're— Ben Freedman: How much does that cost? Tiffany Young: The same, $1.25 or $1.00 whatever it is to call normal. It says if there’s no extra charge. So my question is, if 411 can locate you with your cellphone, why isn’t there some sort of device that maybe you have signed authorization or agreement where you can locate yourself with your cellphone or your spouse via cellphone instead of having to pay for this? Ben Freedman: Well, I don’t know. So basically, your spouse has a cellphone and you are going to track your spouse through their cellphones. Tiffany Young: More importantly your employees, I mean. Ben Freedman: Through their cellphones? Tiffany Young: Through their cellphones. Ben Freedman: You probably could do that. So this is really designed more for vehicles. Tiffany Young: Well, yeah, vehicles but people have their cellphones on their vehicles. They have their cellphones over there. Ben Freedman: That is very, very true. Tiffany Young: So my point is we’d actually look, I’d look in the best. I could not find anywhere that with GPS are the cell phones and some of them I would like to bring a product or tell us about a product that does that, how it would be throughout. Ben Freedman: I bet you there are some cellphones out that will do that. Tiffany Young: Or if you know about that, the product that’s out there. I’d be thrilled to. Ben Freedman: You know this thing work very well, work as advertise. They try it out, let’s take them to my wife’s car and she was gone. I could tell if she’s at school or I could tell where she is. Tiffany Young: Did you tell her it was in her car? Ben Freedman: I did tell her it was in the car Tiffany Young: The question is did you tell her? Ben Freedman: There was that strange four hour period which she went to see our pediatrician which was odd because the kids were in school and she went to his house, not his office. Tiffany Young: I go to see US Weekly. Snitch causes rise in divorce rates to increase dramatically. Ben Freedman: So there you go. That is the GPS Snitch, a pretty cool device. It is small and the battery lasts seven days. Tiffany Young: And people don’t eve know with that. They don’t even know what that was. Ben Freedman: So go check it out, GPS Snitch and you can hide it just about anywhere. The company is Blackline GPS Snitch, go check it out. Tiffany Young: Cool, very nice product. Ben Freedman: I like it and we’ll be back in just a minute with another spotlight. So if you happen to want us to go out catch that, stay tuned. [Commercial] Ben Freedman: So we’re back and we’ve widen up the shot a little bit here and you can see obviously our backdrop is not quite big enough to cover. Tiffany Young: Our new scene, our new setup. Ben Freedman: That’s right. But that’s because we have a product here that takes a little bit more space and yet it’s very stealth. This is called the OneLessDesk and it is actually made by company right here in Phoenix. Tiffany Young: Oh really! Ben Freedman: Yeah. so they said that let’s drop on of here. And what it is it’s a small desk. If you have kids or if you have just small amount of room and you want to have a lot of desk functionality, this is the great desk. So let me show you what you can do here. You could put your laptop. Tiffany Young: Perfect for college students. Ben Freedman: Oh, it is totally perfect for college students. Tiffany Young: Kids. Ben Freedman: What it has is it’s just a single piece of aluminum. It’s very stylish. But when you want a little more space, you take this inside this and this slides out. Now this is a completely separate piece that slides inside like so and now you have a little desk. Tiffany Young: A work station. Ben Freedman: To do a little typing there. Tiffany Young: Yeah, actually this is pretty nice and if that little room for your paper work for here or here. Ben Freedman: Yeah you can put your mouse here. You put a printer, a second monitor and what have you. Tiffany Young: Scalar Ben Freedman: That’s right and since you’re talking away type like so, and when you’re done typing for the day and you need a little bit more room, you just take this, and this slides right back like that. Tiffany Young: Very nice. Ben Freedman: And see how a little room that takes up. Tiffany Young: Because desks are big for the most part. They’re bulky. They take up a lot of space. Ben Freedman: They’re hard to move around and bulky and these are very small, very stylish. And again, when you’re done for the day, you push that back and you’re all done. Tiffany Young: So it also has I ask Ben, “Where did you keep your cords?” because I’m thinking again, it looks nice but you know. Ben freedman: Let’s turn this around here. Tiffany Young: Where’s all your cords got shimmy and mess up looks like. Ben Freedman: Right. So take a look here. You got on the back here of this shelf and all your power blocks and power adapters can go on the shelf and then they have this little notches where you can wrap your power cords around there. Tiffany Young: So you basically have everything plugged in. Now that makes it to where you have to find your spot with your power bar. Ben Freedman: You need a power bar and that kind of stuff. So it’s not only designed to be overly mobile. Tiffany Young: Just right. Ben Freedman: Just out of the way. This is kind as neat as well. You can have it set up in this functionality like so where you’re just typing away. But if you want to have a little more space, you can set up in kind of an L-shape. Check this out. Tiffany Young: Oh yeah! That’s a good idea. Ben Freedman: Like so. Tiffany Young: Great idea. Ben Freedman: So now you could put your monitor up here and now you could scotch in and now you’re using as like little L workstation. Tiffany Young: But you can even actually even have one that’s a little bit bigger. Is that only two piece set? Ben Freedman: This is what they have right now just this two-piece set. Tiffany Young: Say if you want to have one more— Ben Freedman: You could buy two. Tiffany Young: Yeah, you could spend it all. Ben Freedman: By two making a U out of it. Tiffany Young: And this is just about paper size, I’m looking right here, just about a paper size, so perfect. Ben Freedman: That’s right. Oh what a great place for your mouse. Tiffany Young: Or your elbows or just take a nap on your desk. Ben Freedman: That’s right. And again let’s fold it back up again so at the end of the day when you want a little more room as you’re ready to— Tiffany Young: Time to have a party at my place and we need to put the work away. Ben Freedman: That’s right. Or you could make a nice buffet with a few hor derves. Tiffany Young: Oh there you go so many uses. What about cost? Ben Freedman: What about cost? Not the cheapest desk in the world. This is high fashion design, I guess you would call it. Right now he’s asking $899.00. Tiffany Young: Well the thing is not as little surprising because-- Ben Freedman: It’s not like Ikea baby. Tiffany Young: Right. But just so you know, as far as the quality is concerned, this is solid aluminum. Ben Freedman: Yeah, it’s aluminum. Tiffany Young: Solid aluminum. Ben Freedman: That’s beautifully design. I mean it’s very macky feel Tiffany Young: It’s a stainless steel is in so if you have a great room with the kitchen, it’s going to match. It’s going to match everything really well. They are really great design and very high quality, no, I think it’s not really shaky at all. Ben Freedman: No. I think you can put your monitor on there. It’s going to make a nice little station. Tiffany Young: Right. It just reminds me of the MacBook, the skinny one. What do you call that? Ben Freedman: The MacBook Air Tiffany Young: Yeah. This is like the desk. Ben Freedman: Because it is made up of the silver version. Tiffany Young: This is the desk version of the MacBook Air Ben Freedman: Definitely. Tiffany Young: Oh, it matches that MacBook Air. Ben Freedman: Yeah. It was beautiful. So that is the OneLessDesk, very, very cool product. If you are looking for a single desk that you can take in and put out very, very easily I think it’s a great little part. Tiffany Young: Me too. I really like it. 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