Never Lose Your Child Again With This Student-Made Smartband

Never Lose Your Child Again With This Student-Made Smartband

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Guantanamo and Gaza, Movies in China, Drones

Episode: Guantanamo and Gaza, Movies in China, Drones

  • Mar 11, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 12:54 mins

(1:13:47) Guest: Spencer Behrend, BYU MBA student  When you take a toddler to a crowded public space, you better be prepared to keep one hand on the kid at all times, or risk just the kind of scare that prompted my next guest to invent a new technology.  After Spencer Behrend temporarily lost his 2-year-old son in a massive Fourth of July parade, he invented a Bluetooth device called “Kiband” \[pronounced “Kie-band”], to help parents keep track of their kids without needing a leash.  “There’s no GPS in this version of the Kiband, it’s just for localized supervision of the child,” says Behrend. It only goes as far as the Bluetooth radius of your phone. When a child goes further than the set range a parent sets, an alarm will go off on the Kiband bracelet.  “The problem isn’t ‘when’ is that child getting too far away, but ‘where’ is that child getting too far away,” says Behrend. “You can very quickly react and find where the child is.”