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your attention please

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i'd like to introduce you to apple's airtag it's their latest foray into the

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world of bluetooth trackers and it's something we've been waiting

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quite a while for now the idea is it helps you find things

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you've lost whether it's nearby or far away and to put to the

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test i'm going to be leaving this backpack full of precious merch

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on this train and we're going to see how easy it is to get back in a couple of

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hours

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now before the panic sets in what you're going to want to do is put the air tag

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in lost mode you can do that by just opening up the find my app and then tapping on the object and clicking

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enable lost mode now what this lets you do is

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put your phone number with the air tag so that if somebody finds it they can connect to the air

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tech with nfc be taken to a web page with the number and hopefully reconnect you

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with your last object curious if that's what's going to happen to us today

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all right so in the meantime uh what we're going to do is we're going to find

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a set of keys that i had a colleague hide somewhere in the city and one of the

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great things with air tags and to find my app is that you can get directions

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straight to the place using apple maps

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now while we're on the way to this air tag i should probably explain how air

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tags work now they don't have gps built into them that would take too much electricity

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so they use bluetooth low energy and with bluetooth low energy

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what an air tag is doing is it's looking for another phone to connect to

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to then send out its location the big leverage point for

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apple is that they use their find my network which is basically

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every iphone that has it turned on which is upwards of a billion users now

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and what that means is that the air tag can connect with an encrypted connection

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to any iphone that's nearby and tell you where it is

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so you're bound to get a more accurate reading more quickly with air tags than

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you would with any of the competitors

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in 250 meters the destination is on your left

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all right are we

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all right so we've arrived at where it says the keys are

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and now i have to go and find them

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more precisely so let's see how this

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goes

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okay so it says that

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uh the keys are here with me so

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what i'm gonna have to use is ultra wide band to get a precise location of

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where it is just by hitting find nearby it's going to try and connect

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oh six and a half meters away try and connect to the air tag

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and then point me in the direction of where it is now ultra wide band only

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works if you have an iphone 11 or 12. otherwise you can make it make a

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sound so it's around here and i should put the

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sound on

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is it in the ground in the garden

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is it on a

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there it is now when you get really close to the object your phone starts to vibrate like it's

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in a game of hot and cold and here it is in a bike

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how clever it could have been anywhere in the city

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well now that i have an air tag we can now talk about the design

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of it it's a curious little thing that really evokes

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the design of the old ipod you know with

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the glossy white plastic on the front and the shiny glossy chrome

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on the back it's also just as easily scratched and scuffed as those old

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devices were now annoyingly it doesn't have any sort

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of hole or anything on it so that you can attach a key ring or some sort of

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lanyard so if you buy one of these things you have

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to buy a holder if you want to attach it to a key or a

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backpack and this key ring from apple costs 35 on top of

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the already 30 dollars you spent on the air tech now i'm sure amazon will

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come to the rescue with really cheap options but i hope they're

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good quality

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so what about when it comes to tracking people which is

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probably something you don't want apple has thought about that in the design of

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the air tags they have a couple of protections which

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are interesting for one an air tag that's separated from its owner will

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start chiming whenever it's moved after three days so

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if you don't even have an iphone you'll probably know about it then

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but if you do have an iphone and you're running iOS 14.5

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or higher you will get a notification saying that an air tag that's not yours

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is nearby we tested this with my cameraman but

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he didn't get the notification until he arrived

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at home so it's not that instantaneous

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in fact today i've had an air tag on me all day that isn't mine

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and i'm still none the wiser

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all right so it's been a couple hours since we left

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the backpack on the train and so i'm curious uh

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where it is at the moment ah

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it's at the sky train station well actually the candle line station

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nearby here marine drive which incidentally is the train station where

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i left the backpack on the train now i have been monitoring it through the

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day and it did make a couple of lengths up and down the line

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but it made it back to its home this

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train is for ybr

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airport it says it's here but it could be

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do you think there's an office below or something

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we're shipping near it according to the last update which was eight minutes ago

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i can't get a signal i can't get a u1 signal

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and i can't get it to play sound

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with the ultra wideband chip the range isn't that great i've seen maybe

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10 meters max which is about 30 feet 100

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feet 200 feet make things a lot easier but i'm not getting a signal

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according to the map it's on the tracks

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but i don't see anything

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disappointed disappointed

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please

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okay so it's the next day and i thought i'd have to end the piece

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you know thinking that the bag is gone and lost forever and that we really

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pushed what the air tag can do but actually

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i checked the app this morning and it's

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moved it's in the maintenance building for the train line so

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there's hope i forwarded your message on

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to uh my manager and i'm sure he'll be in contact with you when skytrain lost

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property gets your backpack you can pick it up from them at

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stadium okay well i appreciate all the help

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now jonathan you said you called when you were coming here

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because it could still be here but it could still be in quarantine right now

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why don't you give me a description and i can go back so it's it's just a uh blue and red

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backpack it should have a little thing dangling on the front of it

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thanks

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it must be not out of quarantine jonathan okay

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so here's our number okay give us a call

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because it should be out tomorrow morning i'm hoping right as you said you

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tracked it right here yeah i can't it's literal it's right i

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it's right here i could probably beep it i could make it beep really really i

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just want to see if i can hear it

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wonderful very

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yeah they're so handy eh we got it back

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never thought that would happen

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all right so i guess what we showed is that the lost and found system does in fact work which is

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nice to know but if i didn't have this i'd have to use

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translink's broken web form or call them and try and describe what the bag looks

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like and hope it just turns up but this just made things so

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much easier and then i have it back for me initially

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i thought the air tags would just be ideally suited for my wallet because i

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do lose it in the house on occasion but i don't know after this there's something

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to be said about attaching one to your bag or to another

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object you value should you ever really lose it it really goes to

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show just how handy that find my network is

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thanks for tracking this Mac Address and make sure to like and subscribe

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now i'm sure you're curious what's in this bag so let's take a look we got

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an adorable little CPU pillow from the LTT Store as well

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as a water bottle still in its box a fashion

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wireless keyboard and a bunch of t-shirts that are

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too big where's the mock turtleneck