Location location location....after hearing the CEO of Wherify talking about the kid finder, I got to thinking "yea..why doesn't Disneyland do this?" May have blogged that one before. Well, last weekend at WildRivers in Irvine there it was..the kid finder from SafteZone. Not only was I just about the only guy with a cell phone at this place, I'm 100% certain I was the only guy with a i705 wireless palm. These water theme parks are not wireless friendly. In fact one of our group had her backpack stolen from a lounge chair near us.

SafeTzone installed its technology at the Wild Rivers water park in Irvine, Calif., for $275,000 last August. It also is in Buffalo Bill's Casino and Resort in Nevada. Visitors can rent the wristwatches at the water park. At Wild Rivers, guests can rent a wristwatch that sends out and responds to radio frequency. When a family enters the park, their wristwatches can be scanned into a computer system as a group; only members of the group can locate each other. Thirty-four antennas scattered throughout the park can pick up and transmit signals from the wristwatches. Group members can locate each other at three computer kiosks which display a map of the park and the location of the people in their group.