Pickens writes "GPS devices like the Zoombak at $200 plus $10 a month for the Web tracking service have become so compact and inexpensive that some people are using them routinely to keep tabs on their most precious possessions. Kathy Besa has a Zoombak attached to the collar of her 5-year-old beagle, Buddy. If Buddy wanders more than 20 feet from the house, she gets a text message on her phone that says, "Buddy has left the premises." The small size made possible by chip advances over the last two or three years is enabling many novel uses of GPS tracking: An art collector in New York uses one when he transports million-dollar pieces, a home builder is putting them on expensive appliances to track them if they disappear from construction sites, a drug company is using them after millions of dollars in inventory turned up missing, and a mobile phone company is hiding them in some cellphone boxes to catch thieves. "Dream up something, and it can be used for it," says Jon Marshall, the owner of Spygadgets.com, which sells 50 to 75 tracking devices a month."
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