G-Fi, possibly the most useless gadget of the month

It was through a TUAW post that I discovered PosiMotion, who are going to launch a WiFi-enabled GPS receiver towards the end of the year.

They claim things like “Want to keep track of your child or pet’s location? The G-Fi will stay connected to your device for over 100 feet!”, which seems pretty pointless, as they are most likely going to be in visual range. And there would be nothing more unnerving than looking at your child’s position and suddenly have it drop out of range, which knowing how WiFi behaves is bound to happen even at closer distances than 100 feet.

Another supposedly useful feature is to locate your car in case you forgot where you parked it. I’d rather make a note of the parking spot’s number on my phone (you can even just pretend to dial the number, and use the recently called numbers list to recover it), than paying $180 which will let me locate the car…if I can get within 100 feet of it, by which time I’m either blind, or I will be able to see it. Oh, and make sure you park in open spaces, as GPS won’t work in underground car parks.

Honestly, this seems like a pretty bad idea for a product, and at that price, I doubt it’s going to be on many’s Christmas shopping lists.