MedicAlert® to Offer Wherify's GPS Locator Phone for Personal Safety; Wherifone to be Offered to MedicAlert Members in Special Service Plan

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 6, 2005 – Wherify Wireless, Inc. (OTCBB:IQBX), a leading developer of wireless location products and services, and MedicAlert(R), one of the world's largest nonprofit membership organizations with a mission to protect and save lives, today announced that MedicAlert will soon offer the breakthrough Wherifone(R) GPS Locator Phone to its members through a special service plan. The Wherifone will help provide MedicAlert members and their families with immediate communications and location identification. For families with children and persons of special needs, these are essential services.

"The core mission of MedicAlert is to protect and help safeguard the lives of its members. We believe the Wherifone will provide our members with an active safety tool that brings them additional security and peace-of-mind," said Paul Kortschak, President and CEO of MedicAlert Foundation. "Not only will members know their medical information is readily available to care-givers in an emergency, but they will now have access to potentially life-saving, round-the-clock emergency alert and location services for themselves and loved ones."

MedicAlert will offer a special service package to new members who sign up at select Wal-Mart stores beginning with the product's anticipated market launch during the second quarter 2005. The service package includes a MedicAlert Advantage membership and the Wherify service. Subscribers would not only get on-demand precision location information from Wherify, but MedicAlert's 24-Hour Emergency Response Service, 24-Hour Member Services Contact Center, Family Notification, Medication Dosage Service, Online Access and Updating, and Secure Medical Information Storage that guarantees a user's privacy. MedicAlert member information is never given to unauthorized people or organizations.

"We're very pleased to team with MedicAlert, a world leader in personal medical information services, to offer their members the benefits of on-demand precision location services through our Wherifone product," said Timothy Neher, CEO and Founder of Wherify Wireless. "The mission of MedicAlert mirrors our own -- to provide safety and security services that will help save lives, and provide peace-of-mind for families and care-givers. We look forward to working with MedicAlert to provide the benefits of the Wherifone to its members across the country and, ultimately, around the world."

About The Wherifone

Whether used as a "First Phone" for pre-teens or as a "Companion Phone" for seniors or special needs family members, the Wherifone GPS Locator Phone provides affordable peace-of-mind to the modern mobile family. The slim, small and lightweight cell phone features incoming and outgoing calling, five programmable buttons for one touch dialing, a built-in two-way speakerphone, and a headset jack and a backlit LCD display for use with numeric paging. The absence of a traditional dial pad helps parents and caregivers manage the expense of out-going calls. The cell phone is supported by Wherify's Global Location Service Center which can be accessed 24 X 7 by telephone or the Internet to retrieve a Locator Phone's precise location, which can be plotted on both street maps and aerial photographs. Wherify's patented integration of digital wireless and global positioning technologies provides an unprecedented level of location performance that does not require satellite line-of-sight, and can pinpoint a device's location with a high degree of accuracy inside most vehicles, homes or offices.

Small businesses can also use the Wherifone to manage and communicate with mobile workers, and to manage the location of small fleets of trucks or delivery vehicles and coordinate dispatch destinations with drivers. The preprogrammed one-touch dialing buttons also help the small business owner manage communications expenses. The absence of a traditional dial pad prevents workers from using the Wherifone for personal calls and incurring unauthorized expenses, while at the same time insuring they can make necessary calls to up to five pre-defined locations.

About MedicAlert

Founded in 1956, MedicAlert (www.medicalert.org) is one of the world's largest nonprofit membership organizations with a mission to protect and save lives. The MedicAlert Electronic Health Record provides a secure and seamless transfer of identification and medical information to health and safety professionals 24 hours a day anywhere in the world, thereby ensuring patient safety and improving the quality of their care.

Headquartered in the United States, MedicAlert has affiliates in 9 countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand that help serve our 4 million members around the globe. For more information visit the foundation's website at www.medicalert.org.

About Wherify Wireless

Wherify Wireless, Inc. is a privately held developer of patented wireless location products and services for communication, supervision, safety and protection. Wherify's technology can satisfy the requirements of many applications, including personal safety, fleet management, property and asset tracking, law enforcement, animal identification, and to assist individuals with unique and special needs. Wherify's patented location service engine integrates the U.S. government's Global Positioning System (GPS) and wireless communication technologies to enable customers to obtain real-time location information for individuals and property through the Internet or any Wherify device. Founded in March 1998, Wherify Wireless is located in Redwood Shores, California. For more information visit the company's website at www.wherify.com.

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