With This Tracking Device, You'll Never Lose Your Keys (or Mind) Again
With This Tracking Device, You'll Never Lose Your Keys
(or Mind) Again
By Ryan Vogt | Posted Tuesday, July 23, 2013, at 6:19 PM
Tile could help save you from losing your keys or wallet
Maybe this is dumb for an employee of an ad-supported
website to say, but nobody ever looks at ads on the Web, right? Wrong. I
thought I’d been trained to scrupulously avoid eye contact with anything
commercial online. But today an image of a white square attached to a keychain
in the upper right-hand corner of Slate knocked me off course, and, maybe for
the first time ever, I knowingly clicked on an ad.
I was brought to the for Kickstarter-esque website for
Tile, which started with the goal of raising $20,000 to fund its invention and so
far has attracted nearly $2.5 million. (This funding round ends Tuesday night.)
Why is Tile more than 12,000 percent backed? Because as anyone who’s ever lost
their keys—i.e., everybody—knows, losing something is the most tragic of
nontragedies, an immediate and total upturning of your plans (and your couch
cushions), more vexing than even political or religious arguments, because when
you misplace something, you have no one to blame but yourself. And where is
that damn thing?
Like Button TrackR, Tile is the newest droplet in a wave
of tracking devices aiming to solve this first-rate First World problem. Loop
the little white square around your keychain, and your iPhone—sorry, no Android
support yet—will tell you where your keys are. Slip it in your wallet, and skip
canceling all your credit cards. Tile your floor with Tiles, and never lose
track of your house again.
Your Tiled belongings won’t show up on a map on your
phone—this isn’t a GPS tracker. Instead, you and your lost item play a kind of
Marco Polo, with your iPhone telling you you’re getting hotter or colder and
the Tile ringing. The device’s range is just a couple hundred feet, but what it
lacks in global tracking it makes up for with community features. It’s not just
the Tile’s funding that’s crowdsourced, but its functionality, too. If you mark
something as lost, any other phone with the Tile app that gets near it will
automatically beam you your item’s location. As somebody who had three bikes
stolen in college, the first thing I’m gonna do after I get my Tile is go back
in time, glue it to my bike, track it to a dark alley, and get my butt kicked.
Your plans with “the world’s largest lost and found” may
be different. Either way, each little waterproof Tile costs $18.95 and lasts a
year, at which point you have to order more. The price is a little steep, but
as the intro video weirdly suggests, Tile might help you find not just your
laptop, but your soul mate.
thanks for sharing this article, its very much important that we should be careful with our things..there is a device also that if somebody holds your bag the key holder that you have will alarm..
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