Parents now can learn precisely where their child or teenager is, at any moment by calling them and asking them to take a picture, using a new iPhone app called IcePics (In Case of Emergency Pictures) released today.
Already available for use on other app-enabled phones, IcePics allows you to send an email with a person’s photo and the GPS location and Google Map almost immediately, in the event of an attack, to one or more remote locations. By rapidly sending a photo of a person to remote emails, persons with ill intent will think twice because their chances of being caught rise astronomically.
The app’s primary purpose is to assist anyone who suspects they are about to become a victim of kidnapping, rape, robbery or assault, by having them simply point their iPhone at the suspicious person and push the IcePics button. IcePics will immediately send a picture of the “bad guy” along with the GPS location pinpointed on a Google Map to contacts pre-selected by the owner.
Alongside e-mailing a picture of the assailant, IcePicswill also send their location to you via @Google Maps, with the map data landing in your email inbox, alongside the photo. Users simply enter email addresses of as many contacts as they wish and this information is then saved for use whenever the owner is being approached by a suspicious person. Even if the perpetrator smashes your iPhone, the photo will have already been sent from the device and your pre-selected emails.
“A person with ill intent, such as a child-napper, mugger or rapist, will almost certainly abandon their plans because the chance of them being caught is almost assured,” says Jeff Neumeyer, developer of IcePics. “IcePics can actually prevent a crime from happening as opposed to a great program like Amber Alert which is activated after a child is abducted or reported missing. IcePics could be the most important app written for the iPhone because it can save lives today.”
IcePics is available on the App Store for $2.99
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