Using technology to find a lost child

Thank you Patty for sending this interesting tidbit from Popular Science on using flash drives to help find a lost child at Disneyland. If you don't want to read the link, the gist is the family had their kids wear flash drives on lanyards during a day at Disney. The flash drives had the parents' cell phone numbers, so when the lost kid was found by a concerned adult and brought to security, they plugged the flash drive into the nearest computer, launched an "I'm Lost" program, which provided the parents' cell numbers. Kind of a cool way to use technology.

I guess I'm feeling like a bit of a Luddite today, because it seems like you could just try and have your child memorize your phone number, or write it down on a piece of paper or something... When I was a kid, we'd always designate a specific meeting point if someone got lost. Thankfully, I've never managed to lose one of my own kids yet in a public place (knock on wood). How about you? Do you employ any special strategies for finding your kids if they get lost? Or do you have any words of wisdom you'd like to share from any lost-child experiences?

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I've never been lost and hopefully will never experience that with my children. But when we were researching going to Disneyland, one of the tips I came across was writing your cell number on your child's tummy in Sharpie marker. And I forget which big amusement park it is, but there is one that issues wristbands that track where you are. And if you get separated from your group, you go to a kiosk, swipe your band and it shows you where the rest of your party is and vice versa.