For shoppers with rambunctious children who tend to wander off at every turn, there's the Child Guard electronic sensor and alarm system. With advertising slogans like "Always keep an eye on your baby" and "You won't say sorry to your children any more," the Child Guard features a plastic cartoon-creature necklace and a separate transponder device that attaches to a key chain. Anxious parents can set the sensor between 2 and 10 meters, and when the child wearing the transponder necklace wanders farther than the prescribed distance, the key-chain alarm sounds. The Child Guard is available for about $23.
And for outdoor adventurists who hate the feel of sticky insect repellents or the smell of citronella candles, the Hong Kong marketplace offers the chemical-free Mosquito Control Mosquito Repeller, by PestContro. The device can be worn either wrist-watch style or clipped to a belt buckle or lapel, and it claims to repel biting female mosquitoes by mimicking the sounds of dragonflies and male mosquitoes. (Dragonflies are natural predators of mosquitoes, and male mosquitoes are, um, repugnant to their female counterparts.) While the jury's still out on whether this gadget actually repels summer pests, for about $8, it'll make one hell of a conversation piece on my next camping trip.
Alison Overholt (aoverholt@fastcompany.com) is a Fast Company staff writer.
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