Do you ever find yourself misplacing your keys, wallet or purse? Have you ever lost something and wished there was some way to track it? With the combination of Bluetooth technology and mobile applications, you can now track and find your lost items with the touch of a button. Currently, Tile, TrackR, StickNFind, and Lapa are all competing in the chip-tracking market. All of the devices come with an app that allows you to track your lost item up to approximately 100 feet. Once it is out of this range, they use their community of users to help send out alerts for missing objects. All tracking devices also have built in sound, so that you can trigger an alarm that plays aloud from your device. Lastly, all trackers are roughly the size of a quarter, which makes attaching to most items fairly easy. Tile, one of the most popular and highly anticipated trackers( on pre-sale for $19.95) has a hole for hooking the device on key rings or bags as well as an optional adhesive back for sticking on laptops or tablets. With Tile, you are able to track up to 8 devices at a time and you never have to replace the battery. This being said, the battery lasts for only a year and once it dies, you must purchase another Tile. TrackR has an interesting adaptation for duel way location service. What happens when you grab your purse, with a TrackR attached, but leave your phone? Trackr allows you to push a button on the device, which causes your phone to ring, helping you find your phone. TrackR’s battery lasts for a year but it’s easy to replace with a coin cell battery. Also, you can track around 5-10 items with your phone or tablet. Not only does it have all these awesome features, but for a limited time TrackR is giving away $200,000 worth of trackers for free! StickNFind is also a helpful tracker although for $49.99, it is a bit more expensive than the rest. This tracker allows up to 20 devices, while providing users with an easy to read map allowing them to track their missing items. The batteries also last a year and are easy to replace. Not only does StickNFind sound an alarm when alerted, but also flashes to make nighttime searches a lot easier. However, StickNFind uses only adhesive and cannot be easily attached to a key ring. Lapa is on pre-sale for $24.50 or you could get one of each color for three for $59.50. With Lapa, you can share access with friends to help find lost items, or allow them to locate shared items like car keys. The device also alerts you when you leave an item behind, making retrieval quicker and more efficient. Losing things doesn’t always have to be a frantic search, instead invest in a tracker to do the finding for you!
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