Sometimes you read things that you wonder, "Is this for real?" But apparently, yes, Forget-Me-Not panties are for real and they are for women only as far as I could find out.
Yet a version for men would be useful, too. For example in the armed forces. I do not know exactly how it is possible to track the people wearing them, and as such I don't know if it could be used in Iraq. But if it could be done, then I would send a reporter to Iraq and I would give him/her several pairs. Nobody thinks of checking people's underwear, and if they can be allowed to be used in Iraq as well, then when people are kidnapped, they can be found rather easily.
The only problem is that if someone is kidnapped, and troops storm in within a day or so, then someone might suspect something.
I do not know if the two examples are real, even if the shop is real. In an e-mail sent to them, I wondered about some possible uses of the system. Like for example to track multiple persons by one person. Or multiple persons being monitored by one person.
As for their original use, in a good relationship, if done without the women's consent, it might lead to more bad than good things. I'm not saying it will, I'm saying may.
One of the testimonial examples of use at the site was a person saying I didn't want to be an over-protective parent so I did this. I 'd rather say, you're still an over-protective parent. It depends on her age in part, but interferring, or calling every time her temperature rises might be disturbing the natural flow of her life. If you fall in love, you wouldn't want your parents ringing every time when you get a bit hot.
It's rather annoying.
As for the second example of tracking a suspected cheating wife, I don't know if its legal to do that. And the question, why she would be doing it isn't answered by this.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
thanks Floris, this would seem to tie in remarklably well with - as usual we lead the zeitgeist
2 - Cerulean
If you can't tell if your girlfriend is getting hot when you're making out with her, she isn't, for so many reasons.
Males stray more than woman and those teenage girls aren't having sex with themselves, so that website's exclusive focus on the monitoring women is archaic and insane.
That site has to be fake. Technology hasn't advanced that far. The GPS tracking devices that they put on cars are not small enough to be concealed within the cloth of a pair of panties. None of the technology could be made of cotton.
3 - Floris Vermeir
The only way such a system could currently work is by givinn the illusion of control and by not using GPS but Gsm or wifi.
It is to expensive for most people to track somebody using a mobile phone, or pda. Even perhaps a computer. And at there cost, it would make it rather expensive. So with todays connection speeds, if one would make a safe bet and say that it only needs to be able to check sometimes, not all the time.
4 - Bob A. Booey
This is technological misogyny. It's stupid too. Military defense technology to monitor the vagina? How insecure can you get? Anyone who's so insecure that they'd get these and force them upon their wife -- let's face it, they're not sexy to look at -- is going to get cheated on, period, because they're too lacking in self-confidence to keep any woman happy.
It seems stupid logistically as well -- why would a woman leave them on before her cheating rendezvous, knowing what they were for? Is she supposed to wear a different pair of military stalker panties every day? Wouldn't the woman resent you every second you wore beeping, heavy black granny panties like a high-tech chastity belt and decide to cheat as a result of your doubts about her vagina?
That is all.