Use NORAD and Google Earth to track santa at home or on your smartphone

NORAD has been tracking Santa for 55 whole years now, but the past few have seen and even bigger advances in happy fat guy stalking technology.

If you’re Italian-American (or maybe just Italian), you’re probably conscripted to spend Christmas Eve at the home of relatives who are so tech-savvy, they’ve yet to upgrade from a rotary phone that doubles as a bludgeoning device. But equipped with a smartphone, you can track Santa’s movements as he gallivants about the globe hopping down chimneys and snatching yo’ cookies up. You can use Google Earth apps on the iPhone if you’re an iPhone user, but you can also just type m.noradsanta.org into your phone’s browser to get up to the minute Santa info on the go.

Those watching at home can visit noradsanta.org to see where Santa is right now (he’s currently in China!) And social network savvy Santa stalkers can find Rudolph’s current location on Facebook and even Twitter, with updates coming every ten minutes as Santa makes his way across the globe. But you all need to quit being naughty- the 18th most Googled term this hour is “is Santa real?”