Yeah; I have half a dozen of those, they're neat. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST *
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]>wrote: > I thought I wrote about these when I ran across the Kickstarter project, > but I can't seem to find mention of them in the list archives. > > It's a coin sized Bluetooth transmitter that you attach to objects you > want to be able to later find. > > Here's a video review: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9j5ZP2V28 > > Manufacturer's site: > http://www.sticknfind.com/ > > Looks a bit bigger than a quarter (reviewer says "two quarters > stacked"). Runs on a lithium coin cell (CR2016) that lasts a year. > > The tracker also has a small speaker and an LED, both of which help you > spot it when it is activated. > > Works with an iOS or Android app with a "radar" style range finder > screen. (Requires a device that supports Bluetooth 4.0 low energy mode.) > You can pair it with up to 20 trackers. (Reviewer notes the range finder > distances are inaccurate. No surprise there. Also, the direction of the > device can't actually be determined, given the single Bluetooth antenna > on a cellphone, so the radar sweep in the app is just for show.) > > Has a 100 foot range. > > Also has a proximity alert mode, where it will alert you when you are > either within range of the target device, or alert you when you've > gotten out of range of a target device. So in the latter case (a mode > they call "virtual leash"), you might stick one on a laptop, so you get > an alarm if someone walks off with it. > > The cost is $50 for 2 trackers. > > I guess that makes sense for tracking an expensive item within a 100' > radius or something you lose often. But the cost and limit of 20 paired > trackers is going to narrow the scope of how this can be applied. > > It's really too bad the technology and physics don't allow you to do > this sort of thing with RFID tags, which can be had for pennies. > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >
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