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SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah company has just released a new device meant to track your kids' every move. It's called the Amber Alert GPS, and the creator hopes it will save a child if he or she is abducted while wearing one.
Amber Alert GPS is actually endorsed by the mother of "Amber," who the alert is named after.
It's a small device you put in your child's backpack, or in their pocket, and you'll know exactly where they are every second.
Sen. Bob Bennett's grandson Sam tested out the device for us. He and his dad went outside and wandered around, then Sen. Bennett called them.
"All right, we're going to find out where you are 'cause you're in an undisclosed location," Bennett said.
Online, we were able to tell exactly where Sam was.
"I lost him for 45 minutes, and it was a life-changing experience," Thorton said.
For the past four years, Thorton and his team have been working on this GPS, which is now available in the United States and Canada.
Though Utah's Amber Alert program cannot endorse a product, Murphy likes the idea.
When we asked Sam what he thought about it, he said didn't seem to mind carrying it around.
The Amber Alert GPS works on any phone that can send and receive text messages. It costs $379 and about $10 a month to subscribe; it's like a cell phone: the more you use it, the more it will cost you monthly.
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