Xtreme Sports Interactive Emergency ID
During my usual wander around the immense Interbike show I came upon this very small booth for a company named Xtreme Sports ID. They have a very interesting and perhaps a life saving product.
Do you ever go biking, hiking, skiing, running, bouldering, etc by yourself? I think most of us do at one time or another. Sometimes we carry identification and sometimes we don’t. But does your wallet have the proper person or number to contact easily available? How about a Doctors name and number? Maybe you have a medical condition? Xtreme Sports has an interesting solution.
Xtreme Sports makes a small rubber wristband that has a toll free phone number on it and a unique 8-digit ID that corresponds to the wearer. During an emergency, someone calls the toll number and enters the ID number, it then ties into the Xtreme Sports ID database and it will give out information such as Who am I, Where do I live, Emergency Contacts, Medical Provider, Medications and Medical Alerts, Allergies, etc. That information is loaded into the database after you register your ID. The ID bracelet can be purchased for $8 and the yearly renewal is $5. You could even load the database up with your plans such as “Going out biking on Mt Falcon”. The same account could contain up to 6 users so that your entire family could be tied together. It’s a pretty cheap insurance policy that only requires that you have access to a phone, which in this day and age is most places you frequent.
(continued…)
Pages: 1 2
September 25th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Active dot com has been doing these for years “road ID I think its called” that dont go throught a data base, Just simple your info on the band. One less link to go wrong.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I am very familiar with them. I never did it because they were a bit expensive, $19.99 I think. This unit is a bit more high tech but also simple. When you dial the number and enter the id NUMBER on your phone you can then enter 1 and it will say the persons name and spell it out, etc. I still always carry my ID with me for various reasons so they would at least no who I was and where I lived.
I just thought it was an extra layer of protection, sort of like the Colorado State Search and Rescue card I carry that helps pay for remote emergency extraction costs