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Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by ncx.com, your source

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for great technology selection and service along with Corsair Memory and

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Western Digital. So, we're here at Stick and Find. It's actually the last

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possible minute of the show, but I needed to run back and see these guys

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because they have something that I personally think is really cool. Now,

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we've seen little devices such as uh things you can put on your keychain to

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notify you when you move away from your phone and stuff like that, but what I haven't seen before is something that um

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is able to achieve this kind of range and this kind of battery life. So, this

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one right here is the micro beacon. It's

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it has a 8-year battery and a 50ft

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range. Next up, we have the standard stick and fine beacon. It has a one-year

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battery and a 100 foot range. When you step up to the Pro, you get water

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resistance. You also get, see, I'm totally cheating here, a 100 foot range

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and a three-year battery. And then when you step right up to the extend, you get

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a 9-year battery, water resistance as well. And then I believe that's pretty

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much that's the advantage. Okay, so 9-year battery. So this is the kind of thing if you're absent- minded, you

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always leave your car in the parking lot. This is what I'd put on it. It's that small. It's that small. We can do

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B-roll. It's okay. It's that small and it has a 9-year battery. Then the last

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one, and also yeah, 200 foot range on that one as well. The last one, this is

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the rechargeable unit. This is the HQ beacon. And the battery doesn't last for

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a phenomenally long time and before you have to recharge it. But what this one

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does is it works up to around 3,000 ft

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using a combination of Bluetooth and GPS technology. So it can be configured to

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do things like show you the last place that you left a device that had this

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stuck to it. So when it goes out of range, it can go, "Oh crap." And it can

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drop a pin on a map. You can go ahead and see where all your stuff was, where

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you last saw it. You can also set it up to notify you in the event that you walk

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away from something. So luggage, keys,

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phones, things like that would be very very relevant here. But the application

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that I actually see as most relevant to me is putting it on something like a

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beloved pet or child. I didn't suggest that second one actually pet. Let's just

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say pet and using it to find it. So I'm going to be the beloved pet for our

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little demonstration here. And I'm going to use the standard beacon and I'm going

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to have my lovely assistant hold up a phone in front of the camera while I

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walk away. So here we go guys. I am walking away with it.

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How are you? Good. How are you? You have something for sale.

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What do you want? We have this, right?

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Yeah. The big one. This one is what? Better here. This one more sensitive.

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What? Yeah. Range. Different battery life.

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Thank you very much. So once it reaches about 98% signal strength, you know,

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your game of hot and cold is pretty much done. Now, unfortunately, it works as as

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a game of hot and cold as opposed to, you know, dropping pins on the radar

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exactly around you. But to me, the most fascinating thing about it is the

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battery life because you can have all the great technology in the world that

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you want. I mean, I think something like the Samsung Galaxy Gear is a great example of this. Great piece of

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technology. Battery lasts for like a few hours, so you're constantly tethered to

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a to a wall socket. This one, not so much. You set it, you forget it, you

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remember like once a year to change your cat's battery and then it's all good. Now, if I didn't feel like playing hot

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and cold, there are other options as well. I could have simply clicked page it.

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It's got a little LED on it. It's got a little noise that it makes. Makes it a

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little bit easier to find. I saw the LED a second ago. Where'd that LED go? Well,

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the LED goes off at the beginning. Anyway, we'll do B-roll of that. Thank you guys very much for checking out our

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booth coverage of the Stick and Find. Remember, the applications of this

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technology go beyond just finding something. You can use them for things

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like um you know, instore navigation. For example, if a retailer were to

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deploy these 9-year batteries all over their store, you could actually like

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navigate the store and go to clothing just by following around the little little beacons beacons because you can

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label them wallet or you can label them like, you know, bathroom or whatever the

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the case may be. Imagine a store that never had to direct people to the bathroom anymore. Anyway, guys, remember

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