RFID jammies for kids

Clothing brand Lauren Scott is introducing a new line of children's sleepwear (aka jammies) that come embedded with RFID tags so that parents can be instantly alerted if their toddlers try to sneak out for a night of wild partying. The clothes will be sold at Target and work with SmartWear's RFID system of tag readers that you're supposed to place near doors and windows. Paranoid/loving parents should be prepared to shell out about five hundred bucks for the whole set up.

[Via The Wireless Weblog]

[BP @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

The title makes it sound like jammies is a cute way to say jammers

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Who's gonna go party in their pajamas?

[Google Nazi @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

The same kind of people who don't party... common... Who wears clothes at a party? :P Also its called putting the tag on your husband XD

[chris joseph @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

the cult of pushbutton parenting strikes again

[skully @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

um... am I the only one freaked out about RFID clothing to track us??

[Galen @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

It would work as long as these wild parties are pajama parties..

[jason @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Anyone who wears jammies to bed isn't going out partying.

[Hellmaster @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Why not just implant the chip in the kids brain??? It would work better...

[robin @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Hmmm...how big do the sizes go?

[Brandon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

waterproof for washing?

[Topmounter @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

They are already implanting these things in your pets.

It is only a matter of time before they start surgically implanting them in Humans.

[LTM @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Conform, conform. What's next subliminal messages in music while we sleep. (Love your politicians! Love your corporations!. They have your best interests at heart!)

[Knievel @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Does the alarm go off if Michael spills Jesus Juice on their jammies?

[Darnell Clayton @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Gee...wouldn't something like that be easily disabled by putting it in the dryer? A dozen times or so?

[nickd @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Come on! Any kid that has enough balls to " sneak out for a night of wild partying" is going to be smart enough to "hack" this. They will just take those clothes off and wear other clothes! People do not give kids enough credit. They are smarter than adults think. I think this is more marketing than actual function.

[boxgamex @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

amen 15, everyone doubts the kids when they dont know the half of it, we read adults like books.

[Dimitri Plabato @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Jammies? Chips in the jammies? Wow... I think they're forgetting that us kids know alot more about technology than the adults. *sigh* this is going to end up so wrong... next thing you know parents are going to be stratching their backs unaware that their kids are watching them go to the porn shop when they 'say' they are going shopping.

[thedvs01 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"Does the alarm go off if Michael spills Jesus Juice on their jammies?"


hahahaha

oh yeah, this is a stupid idea

[Adam @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I have vivid memories of being awakened at 6 AM by a woman who thought we should know our 2 year old son was playing in the sprinklers in his yellow jammers. There were locks on the door, a chair carefully maneuvered to unfasten them.

YES - there is a reason for this sort of technology even though we might wish we were perfect parents.

[A Rebelious Teen @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

wow what a dumb idea... i mean if the kid really could sneeak out of the house and get back in from a party without getting caught that takes skill dont ruin it by putting a tracking device thingy... and dont the put the same things on convicts taht are on parole???

i guess if you look at in a sence to stop Micheal Jackson from stealing a kid and taking him to Neverland... jk

[Spyvie @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Tell the parents of all the children who have been kidnapped and murdered that this is a bad idea.

I don�t think its for tracking teens

[jon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Now this is going too far!

[macshasta @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Why not spend the $500.00 on a good parenting class and leave the tracking devices for counting fish?

[Jason @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

"their toddlers try to sneak out for a night of wild partying"

People, let's pay attention and think a little. Your faithful editor Peter Rojas is making a JOKE. The jammies are for TODDLERS, and toddlers don't sneak out to party. Toddlers do, however, sleepwalk out of the house, they put chairs in front of doors and open deadbolts, they wander into the kitchen and binge on chocolate, and, yes, they do sometimes get snatched by bad people.

The tags are not to keep teenagers in the house, they are to keep infants and toddlers safe, and unless you plan on sleeping on the floor of their room every night, they seem like a great idea to me.

[CeeJay @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

An RFID tag on your cats collar (or even injected in underneath the skin like you tag dogs today) and a reader near the cat door , would be a good way to make sure only your cat entered your house, but tracking humans is a bad idea .. People don't like being watched all the time.

Besides kids tha are old enough to try and sneak off are old enough to block or disable the tags

[Dimitri Plabato @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Ok, yea and I will admit that todlers DO get around the place... such as a kid who about 4 months ago unlocked the door to his house and DROVE to the video store to get GTA.

But the thing is... how are you gonna track something if your sleep?

[Ed @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Thats stupid, you could just take it off?

[Ro @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

#24 is right, and I can't believe how many people are turning this discussion of child safety and children's jammies into a paranoid Big Brother Fest. If you want to comment on adults being tracked, go look at the news story from today about the tracking cards they will be issuing to non-Canadians at the border.

This item is to prevent kidnappings and elopements in small children. Any parent who has small children and wants to sleep sometime will probably consider this along with the baby monitors.

[Flashman @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

I can't believe it took until #19 for somebody who's RTFA to make a comment... and that #20 STILL didn't get it. (Though given the spelling mistakes, I shouldn't be surprised.)

These pyjamas are supposed to alert parents if their kids go wandering off or get snatched in the night.

Don't talk about this being a substitute for good parenting - it's unintrusive surveillance for someone you can't watch over while you sleep. It's peace of mind, and it cuts down a kidnapper's head start to 30 feet.

[thepuncher @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

Dou you really think kidnappings are so common? Do a little research into the various psy-ops/mind control factions of the military and intelligence world and you'll understand the problem reaction solution scenario as it applys to kidnapping (esp. children)... Uhh Johnny Gosch/Jeff Gannon, anybody??? If you can't get a keyed deabolt for your door and feel this is the only option, get bent... the less leashes they beta test the better...

[mustafa @ Dec 19th 2005 12:18AM]

what kind of privacy invading parent would do that its just paranoya whats next a miniture camera so they can see what your doing aswell its just weird.LOL.