Cistrak Turns Your Car Into a TXTING BFF

LOL UR CAR IZ GONE is what Cistrak will be saying when your car is stolen. Cistrak is a small, boxy device that allows for a car to easily be tracked by utilizing text-messaging technologies. Of course, it could also be used by overprotected parents fearful that their kids are hooning it up all over the state. Luckily for everyone involved, the device is fairly simple to use.

Once your car is stolen, or you feel the need to find out where it is, you call the Citrak. It has a designated number. Once called, the Cistrak will immediately send a text message back to the called number with the exact location of the vehicle, including the postal code of the area it's in. Also available is an online service that allows over-protective parents or paranoid car-owners to set a vehicle safety zone. If the car ever exists safety mode, the Cistrak will start firing off alerts and text messages to mom and pops, or to obsessive owners.

Cistrak isn't cheap, at nearly $600. It also requires an annual service fee of $120, after the first year, which the manufacturer throws in for free. [Cistrak via Tech Digest]

4:45 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Travis Hudson
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Dr.Danger is in Denial at 04:52 PM on 01/28/08
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This is beeper quality tech. We are in the ultra GPS tracking with uber nav screens era now. I want a live overhead satellite feed showing the direct and precise updated position of the vehicle in question.

JUS WANT FACS, MAM
WarShrike at 04:53 PM on 01/28/08
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Why not just hardwire in a cellphone that handles GPS and pay for the service on your plan as a secondary line? Just hide the bugger somewhere else inside the car.
lascauxcaveman at 04:54 PM on 01/28/08
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car thief 1: "I gotta get my ears checked. I keep hearing dial tones everytime we jack a new ride."

car thief 2: "Huh."
Indiana Bento and the... at 04:56 PM on 01/28/08
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Im in ur car strippin ur parts lulz!
lemondriver at 04:57 PM on 01/28/08
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OMG! WTF! WELCUMZ 2 THA MACHIN!
Mad_Science at 05:02 PM on 01/28/08
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"Safety Zone", "Safety Mode", whatever.

...what about a safety word? You need a way for your car to let you know your current antics are too much.

"El Camino" might work...of course, some of us scream that when we're having fun anyway.
Dr.Danger is in Denial at 05:10 PM on 01/28/08
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It is actually a cat that hangs out in the dash that is TXTING U...
velocecrat at 05:17 PM on 01/28/08
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@Dr.Danger: and yaw angle.
A strolling player at 05:52 PM on 01/28/08
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@Dr.Danger: @velocecrat: Add a full G-meter, while you're at it, among other things. Why? I respect hoons much more than I respect common thieves.