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REAL LIFE NEWS: HOW TO SPY ON YOUR KIDS

by Hazed

If you don't trust your teenage children not to be trying to crack the face recognition software on cigarette machines, maybe you want to monitor their driving habits, too, to make sure they aren't going too fast or doing anything else unsafe.

Since you can't follow them around in person, you need the help of a gadget, and a new device called the Tiwi could be just what you want. It's a box you install in your car, and it monitors all kinds of useful things about your children's driving, such as their speed, acceleration, whether they are wearing seatbelts, even if they take corners too fast. It'll even send you a text message warning you if little Charlie is doing racing starts away from traffic signals, or failing to buckle up - or you can program it to issue verbal alerts to the errant driver: "If you don't slow down this instant, young man, I am telling your father!"

The box costs $549 and there's a $35 a month charge for the service. Parents who believe in the surveillance society will no doubt be delighted. Their children, probably less so!

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