Driving Activity Reporter - Track Your Car Wherever It Goes

Or, better said, take away your children's privacy without letting them know. The Driving Activity Reporter, available now at Hammacher Schlemmer, is a device that permanently tracks the location of your car and stores the information inside the in-built memory. The gadgets is capable of providing a detailed report of places, routes and speeds traveled for almost 100 hours of driving activity.

Wondering how does it work? The Driving Activity Reporter integrates a 16-channel GPS receiver that collects transmissions from 24 Department of Defense satellites in order to track the movements of the vehicle.

Once the information is collected, all you have to do is to plug it in the USB port of your computer and, using the included software application, access the animated digital street mapping, graphs and texts showing you the exact date, time and llocation of every stop and ride.

The best thing? It is extremely small, about the size of a pack of gum, Hammacher Schlemmer says. This basically allows you, the parent, to hide it wherever you want inside the car.

There are a few things to know before using it. The device only works in temperatures between -15 degrees F (-26 degrees Celsius) and 185 degrees F (85 degrees Celsius) so you shouldn't encounter any problem unless you're living at the North Pole.

Batteries have always been a problem for such devices but Hammacher Schlemmer says the device saves battery whenever it's possible. For instance, it automatically enters sleep mode when the car is stationary for more than two minutes. However, two regular AAA batteries should be enough for 100 hours of driving activity, the company said. Pricing starts at $229.95.