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Smart Finder Locates Your Missing Gadgets... Don't Loose This

- A remote control device that detects RFID tagged gadgets

By: Robert Ursache, Gadgets Editor

It's safe to assume that it's impossible to feel happy when loosing
something, right? Wrong! You can still be relaxed when you find out you lost your keys. How about if I tell you that you can find all your missing items by using a remote control (as long as you don't loose the remote control itself)?

Meet the Mecha of all gadgets: the Smart Finder. Dear unorganized people, we're nothing without this. Think of it like a mobile phone that can beep keys or your lost $400 Kodak V705 digital camera. Imagine your keys yelling: "Master, we're here, in the backyard grill!".
The Smart Finder is a remote control device with four colored coded receivers that can be attached to things like keys, wallets, mobile phones, hand bags, TV remotes and much more (even to a roaming Siberian Husky).

Here's how it works. The device uses RFID technology (Radio-frequency identification), which is an automatic identification method that relies on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags. So, basically your gadgets will be RFID tagged (using the colored receivers) in order to be detected by the remote control. Right.

Other features include: low battery warning, 2 keyrings and 2 double sided adhesive pads for attaching the receivers to anything. The remote control transmitter can send a radio signal even through walls and floors to activate the 85 decibel alarm on the receiver.

The big problem is the range. Only 25 meters, damn it. If someone steals your stuff, there's no way you could trace it after its beeps. Maybe you could also try spraying your gadgets with a female odor and then use a horny reconnaissance dog. That'll do (not that I speak from my personal experience)! It's yours for $35 (25 UK pounds). Oh, and don't forget to stick a receiver to the remote control. You surely don't want to loose this baby too, ok?

We are just a few, but there are many of you, Softpedia users, out there. That's why we thought it would be a good idea to create an email address for you to help us a little in finding gadgets we missed. Interesting links are bound to be posted with recognition going mainly to those who submit. The address is .

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