Effective immediately, DBL will begin marketing SPOT-1 to customers nationwide. This state-of-the-art personal messenger with GPS tracking, once activated by a satellite subscription, will send the exact coordinates of your location to International Emergency Response Center or 9-1-1. If your exact coordinates cannot be obtained, the device will send a distress signal instead. Other excellent features include personal messaging capabilities that reaches out to friends and family to request for help or to let them know you are okay. In addition, SPOTcastingSM sends a message to your account every 10 minutes, allowing your friends and family to view your entire route through GoogleMapsTM. Designed for maximum reliability, Spot performs a self diagnostic test every time it is powered on. It works worldwide and even in the most remote areas where cell phone service is scarce.
“This new and innovative product and technology introduced by Spot has revolutionized the navigational market,” stated Tim Coakley, Senior Vice President of Merchandising for DBL Distributing. “Its tremendous versatility coupled with its unique functionality greatly appeals to customers within our navigational product segment.”
SPOT-1 was included in DBL’s new Spring/Summer catalog featuring nearly 520 product lines, 5,200 new items and over 20,600 products. To order SPOT-1, please call DBL’s dedicated sales staff at 800.733.6766 or order online at www.dbldistributing.com.
Commuters often times have trouble finding a parking spot on those busy mornings where everyone else is looking for one, too. British entrepreneur Tom Page may have come up with a solution to this problem. 18 year old Page thought of the idea while he was working for a UK company. Apparently parking is really bad on the other side of the Pond because Tom was having to park about 30 minutes away. This guy came up with the idea for homeowners to rent out their driveways on a 5-7 day time period. The idea is that commuters rent the space they want so they don’t have to spend time looking for one.
www.youcanpark.com is potentially beneficial to both driveway owners and commuters. Owners can earn some extra income (as long as they don’t need their driveway the entire day) and commuters are guaranteed to have a parking place when they come to work in the morning.
The new company who organizes (or organises if you are English) the project is based in Bristol where they have over 7000 daily commuters. The company provides their services to locations all over the UK. The company is also developing www.youcanshare.com so commuters can see other commuters who are going the same direction and can coordinate carpooling.