TrackR by Phone Halo - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital hey guys I'm here with our first video at CES with Christian to show us
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tracker which is pretty interesting I was interested the second I showed up to
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the booth because I constantly lose my keys I'm pretty good with my wallet I'm
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pretty good with my phone but I literally can never find my keys so how
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does this work so Luke we've got a solution for you you attach the sticker
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tracker to your keys or a bag anything
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that you want to keep track of you can even stick it on a remote the app will
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find that thing at the Press of a button so you press a button on the app and
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then it it makes it beep so you can see where you know did you leave it in the
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couch cushions did you you know did it fall under the table and then you can
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see with a hot cold indicator on the app if you're getting warmer or colder and
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then if you leave it behind it remembers where on a map you left that thing so
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this works through Bluetooth and you said the battery life was pretty insane how long is the battery life for that
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little tracker it goes up to a year on
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uh a little watch battery so you don't have to worry about constantly plugg it
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into your computer or whatever the wall to charge it which is actually really nice because you might lose something
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for a few days and having these kind of things and having them die is really not
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that helpful so there's another thing you're talking me about where you can kind of help other people find stuff
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just like ways and how does that work so in the latest Tracker app we've
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Incorporated social tracking we're calling IT Crowd tracker so if I left my
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keys some somewhere and you walked by
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them then you would anonymously and confidentially just REM let me know
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where my keys moved to so you can see on
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this little map I've got my tracker on a
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map and it knows where I left it and then if another user walks by it gives
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me an updated location for that thing cool so it's Bluetooth but it doesn't
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have to fully connect it just has to kind of ping and then it updates the map
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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
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correct yes so if you're interested in having other people help you find your
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stuff when you lose it um then you can help other people find their stuff when
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they lose it perfect so you if you're someone who tends to leave things behind
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like myself this might help you a lot I also heard that it's pretty inexpensive
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so how much are the different devices we wanted to make it really easy for people
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to keep track of their stuff so one device is 29 and it's two for 39 and
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four for $80 perfect that's really not
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that bad I don't think I don't know about you is this kind of stuff you're
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interested in comment below as always thanks for watching our content thank
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