We've talked at length about the Zoombak Personal Locator, a GPS system designed to help you track and find your pets. But what if you're dealing with an elephant? In Kenya, communities near wildlife preserves suffer when elephants raid their crops, often wiping out months of work in a single night. Elephants who make a habit of raiding frequently end up shot.

Not too long ago, the University of Utah published a paper detailing a joint effort between Save The Elephants and Kenya's wildlife habitat officials to outfit certain elephants with GPS-equipped collars. The data gathered from tracking has gone a long way toward highlighting the issues local wildlife conservationists in the area face. Until recently though, it didn't do much to reduce human-pachyderm conflicts. New developments in GPS tracking technology, however, allow conservationists to come up with a simple, yet elegant solution.

Working in conjunction with GoogleMaps, and using a hybrid GPS/cell system designed especially for Kenya's wildlife preserves (similar to the Zoombak, but on a larger scale),  the rogue elephants' GPS collars can now text researchers with their location every  hour. When an elephant strays too close to human settlements, park rangers are able to spring into action, heading off the elephant before he gets to his human neighbors' crops.  This new system is starting to make a difference, and has already saved lives.

Researchers are currently setting up GPS safety corridors and areas throughout Kenya's preserves. The rangers will get a text message when a tagged elephant has moved out of the area he needs to be in.

How cool is that?

And we're curious. Kenyan park rangers put GPS technology to good use. What innovative way do you use GPS devices like the Zoombak to help you manage your world? We want to know how people use this exciting technology, so tell us your story.