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Digital hey guys I'm here with our first video at CES with Christian to show us
tracker which is pretty interesting I was interested the second I showed up to
the booth because I constantly lose my keys I'm pretty good with my wallet I'm
pretty good with my phone but I literally can never find my keys so how
does this work so Luke we've got a solution for you you attach the sticker
tracker to your keys or a bag anything
that you want to keep track of you can even stick it on a remote the app will
find that thing at the Press of a button so you press a button on the app and
then it it makes it beep so you can see where you know did you leave it in the
couch cushions did you you know did it fall under the table and then you can
see with a hot cold indicator on the app if you're getting warmer or colder and
then if you leave it behind it remembers where on a map you left that thing so
this works through Bluetooth and you said the battery life was pretty insane how long is the battery life for that
little tracker it goes up to a year on
uh a little watch battery so you don't have to worry about constantly plugg it
into your computer or whatever the wall to charge it which is actually really nice because you might lose something
for a few days and having these kind of things and having them die is really not
that helpful so there's another thing you're talking me about where you can kind of help other people find stuff
just like ways and how does that work so in the latest Tracker app we've
Incorporated social tracking we're calling IT Crowd tracker so if I left my
keys some somewhere and you walked by
them then you would anonymously and confidentially just REM let me know
where my keys moved to so you can see on
this little map I've got my tracker on a
map and it knows where I left it and then if another user walks by it gives
me an updated location for that thing cool so it's Bluetooth but it doesn't
have to fully connect it just has to kind of ping and then it updates the map
without that user actually knowing and this is an opt-in correct so if you're kind of worried about it you can say no
correct yes so if you're interested in having other people help you find your
stuff when you lose it um then you can help other people find their stuff when
they lose it perfect so you if you're someone who tends to leave things behind
like myself this might help you a lot I also heard that it's pretty inexpensive
so how much are the different devices we wanted to make it really easy for people
to keep track of their stuff so one device is 29 and it's two for 39 and
four for $80 perfect that's really not
that bad I don't think I don't know about you is this kind of stuff you're
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