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Haven’t we all wanted to invent THE killer lost key/purse/anything system? But it looks like the designers of StickNFind have beaten us to it. Another Gizmag piece: StickNFind system uses your phone and coin-like tags to find lost items.
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We are told upto 20 tags can be paired with a device, but it would be useful to know whether each tag can pair with more than one handset?
Oh and hands up everyone who never loses their mobile phone? I always know where mine is (in fact get criticism because it appears to be welded to me) but my parents don’t always recall where they left theirs … I suspect the majority of people who see this and think “Oooh I need one of those” are likely to be those who lose their phone?
Like many of the products and equipment we discuss I can see possibilities but I can also see considerable limitations. I won’t be offering crowd funding …