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The lost item that whistles for you...

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 20 April 2009

Of course there are things which - when you lose them - will respond to a whistle, by beeping. Or you can press a wireless button to make them call you. But if you've already gone home, leaving it at the dentist or strip club, what use is that? What you want is something which calls you before you leave it behind.

Re:Collect does this. It uses RFID wireless tags, which you attach to precious gadgets.

You put your Re:Collect bracelet on, and tell it which things you want to monitor.

Then, if you get too far away from the tagged device, the bracelet panics and screams!

Well, it's no less brilliant than any other design from Central St Martins design college. Commercially? well, you have to ask yourself: "Does this make my iPod look more, or less cool?"

Nice video demo on MakeZine.