A number of adults – many of them technology journalists – are getting very excited about wearable gadgets, from fitness trackers to smartwatches. But will parents be as enthusiastic about the prospect of similar gadgets for children?

LG hopes so. It’s just unveiled a new smart wristband called the LG KizON, which will go on sale in South Korea this month, before becoming available in North America and Europe later in the year.

It’s basically a gadget for tracking your child. “Utilising GPS and Wi-Fi, KizON provides real-time location information allowing parents to track their children’s whereabouts on a compatible smartphone,” explained LG this morning.

The device also includes a button that dials a preset phone number: your mobile, for example, or the home telephone. What’s more, if you call the device and your child doesn’t answer within 10 seconds, it’ll connect anyway so you can hear what’s going on around them.

The KizON will come in a choice of blue, pink or green, but no details of how much it’ll cost in the West are being announced yet.

This isn’t the first time the idea of mobile technology to track children’s whereabouts has been mooted: a number of mobile apps already offer the same features.

Will it catch on? I’m a bit dubious. There’s an argument that you’ll only really need something like this once your children are regularly out and about on their own – for example travelling to school under their own steam – and by that time they may well have their own mobile phone.

Maybe younger children? It’s that awkward judgement: too young to be off on their own and thus need a device to track them, versus old enough to be taking responsibility for keeping in touch, and quite possibly bridling at the thought of wearing a dedicated tracking device.

Still, let’s see how popular the KizON is when it goes on sale.