DeWalt is offering GPS for your tools

[Leon]

Well just when I thought that the laser on some tools was about as high tech as you could get, here comes DeWalt with a GPS sensor.

What????

Imagine, preparing to drill a hole, walking over to your computer and plotting a route for your drill and pressing enter. The drill drills a hole at the coordinates you entered and is guided by GPS technology.

WOWWWW!!!!

No, that is not what it is at all. Never mind.

DeWalt is coming out with the new,,,,, DeWalt MobileLock GPS Locator with Anti-Theft Alarm (DS500)

to keep up with your equipment. Hummmmm

Only $500 plus $20 per month to monitor its where abouts.

The protection may cost more than the tool.

Read more here.

[Doug Miller]

Sounds like a solution in search of a problem.

[Mike Richardson]

By any chance was the advertising launched April 1?

[Nova]

"Other features of the MobileLock include door contact, vibration, tamper and temperature sensors. These features are where this product will shine in the home shop world."

Can someone explain why I'd need a $500 GPS enabled alarm system for my home shop?

[Leon]

;~) No, it's the real deal.

[Just Wondering]

Forget the tools, maybe hide it in your car trunk, or in some large and valuable household furnishing, as an antitheft device?

[efgh]

DeWalt company.

[Mike M]

cancer. I really don't want to be around 10 years from now!

[CW]

[Mike O.]

There's a company here that offers a similar set-up for large machines. Some of the dirt guys have locators on Bobcat's and larger equipment.

Mike O.

[Lew Hodgett]

If GM can have OnStar, why not DeWalt with MobileLock?

Lew

[Robatoy]

I visited their (DeWalt) web-site and watched the video and formed an unbiased opinion. Good idea for big things, not cheap.

After a few years, when the 'look' of this product becomes known to the thieves, it might become a deterrent . That would be a good time to make phoney blank copies of that product and sell them for 50 bucks.

Print up some radiation stickers with an image of Hillary superimposed on it...now THAT is a deterrent.

...just saying...

r

[Mark & Juanita]

I'd guess the problem is real enough (ask any contractor about the high vapor pressure of unattended tools). However, I'd also guess the price of this product is a bit steep to be a real solution to the problem.

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[Mark & Juanita]

Think that just the hillary picture would be enough -- doesn't need any embellishment by a radiation symbol or anything else.

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[Edwin Pawlowski]

ten seconds or less.

Just as a lot of tools in the pawn shops now are missing the charger, the new wave of DeWalt tools will have a hold drilled in the case or some such thing.

[Just Wondering]

Like smacking it with your nearby hammer?

[Edwin Pawlowski]

That would work, unless the hammer has GPS and the swing is detected.