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A US technology firm
has come up with Bluetooth stickers which can be attached
to your essential items like wallets, keys, and even kids and pets to track
them.
Your valuables can be
detected by the stickers which work through a smartphone app that sets off a
buzzer to help locate them. The app also includes a radar-like function to help
you find your way to your possessions.
About the size of a
coin, the Stick-N-Find stickers can attach via adhesive to valued possessions
and send a low-energy Bluetooth signal with a range of about 100ft, the 'Daily
Mail' reported.
So far the team
behind it has developed apps compatible with smartphones with a range of
features to help users track down their stickered-up possessions when they go
missing.
The first function
the app offers is a simple radar screen that approximates the distance - but
not yet the location - of all the paired Stick-N-Find stickers in range.
The technology does
not yet allow the app to determine which direction the lost items are in, so
users have to start walking while watching the screen to see whether the device
they are hunting for gets closer.
A second feature,
which the designers call the Virtual Leash, allows users to set an alarm to
sound whenever a sticker moves a predetermined distance from your phone.
This feature could
be used to keep track of your children at the playground, for example, or to
remind you if you're getting
ready to leave the house for work and forget to pick up your keys.
A third feature called Find
It helps to locate any items that are out of range by setting an alarm to sound
as soon as they appear on the app's radar, allowing you to begin using it to
track down the lost item as soon as you are nearby.
The stickers
themselves will keep going for up to a year on a watch-type battery.
They include
buzzers and flashing lights that can be activated remotely to help users track
them down and one smartphone can be paired with as many as 20.
The Stick-N-Find location stickers are the brainchild of John Mitts, an engineer
at SSI America which is a product development company specializing in small
electronics.
"Just like
everyone we lose stuff all the time so, we thought, why not design an
ultra-small Bluetooth connected sticker you can stick on any device, person or
animal so you can easily find them?" he said.
"So we came up
with Stick-N-Find. Stick-N-Find is an ultra-small sticker with built in
Bluetooth low energy with a range of 100ft, about the size of a US quarter and
with a battery life that lasts about a year," he added.
You Can put it anywhere you like.So that you can detect easily.
