“EZ-Find” is an ugly wand with an garish LCD display that can be used to track down lost items in your home, provided you’ve first attached the rather large identity tags to them in the first place. Seems like a great notion for cluttered households (especially ones with forgetful kids), but I wish everything were just a bit smaller—especially the tags.
A Starter Pack with four Tags is $60. Additional tags are $15 for two.
And what happens when you loose the EZ-find?
humm… smaller huh? Maybe you could fit it in a rechargable battery. For extra points, one of those fancy batteries with the USB plug.
Or… maybe a future use of RFIDs.
the second the trackers become small enough to unobtrusively attach to keys, a wallet and glasses… i buy this.
“Hot or not, let HotSpot spot — HotSpot guide rods are Keen!”
they should make a keychain version of the identity tag… never lose your keys again!
actually I’m considering buying this thing. I have grocery membership tags on my keyring that aren’t much smaller than the tags for this (it’s 1.8 x 1.33 x .175 inches per http://www.ez-find.com/faq_finder_and_tags.html ). It comes with a keyring link. My grocery store tags are about 2″ by 1″. I could easily see putting a tag inside my wallet as well. Can’t see how you’d attach it to glasses, but I bet you could put a tag in a glasses case. If you use a case.
I’m not astroturfing and have no stake in this, just pretty intrigued and think the other commenters might benefit from the additional info.
If anyone’s interested I could post here if/when I buy this thing.
Yeah, those tags are too big. I’ll never be able to get my cat to swallow something that size.
#7: The tags are also a bit large to put on a cat collar, but would make for an interesting game of Ghost in the Graveyard.
As soon as the tags get smaller, me mine mine! I am forever misplacing stuff, plus I have a prankster son who likes to pick things up.
@5 Waterlilygirl – I assume your post was tongue-in-cheek.
Several years ago someone was selling a fob and clicker set for people who chronically lost their keys. You would push the button on the clicker and the key fob would beep, helping you find it. An acquaintance of mine bought one after chronically losing his keys. Took about four days before he lost the clicker. And the keys.
I swear, I had virtually this same idea about 2 years ago. Mine had a v-shaped wand that would triangulate the location, and it would use rfid tags that would basically be little stickers on a roll you could slap onto everything. I described my idea in some detail to an electrical engineering friend of mi…. oh hell.
At least they didn’t implement my second design, with the clear plexiglass screen you would look through, with the LED projected crosshairs showing you which direction to look…
Crap. Robert, if you’re reading this, I want my cut!
Um. Wow. Is this an invention someones grandma found in the basement, lost the 80′s? I knew I should’ve invented this when I thought of it at age 7.
Psh.
No, the tags should be smaller and the volume/mass that they lose should go INTO the “wand”. Which should not be a wand – it should be a wall-mountable panel that can be programmed with what each item is attached to and a menu of options that you can scroll through. “Hmm…let’s see, Jonny’s DS, no; Suzie’s DS, no; TV remote, no; ah-ha, cable box remote!” *push enter* From elsewhere in the house: “BEEP BEEP BEEP”.
It’s a good idea. The problem with it is that all the implementations so far have been poor. The tags are almost small enough if they fit on a Nintendo DS as shown. But the “activator” piece of it has to fixed in position so that it CAN NOT ever be lost.
I agree ENDER_SB. I’ve thought of this many times, and I think I saw a commercial for the car-key finder that someone else posted about and said, why don’t they do that for everything you could lose…and I figured they would, and I was right. I just think it’s too cheap, which makes the tags too big. I mean, it’s great if you can slap it onto the back of a remote…but then the remote doesn’t sit flat…how long until the double-sided tape wears off…and, of course, there’s the problem of losing the wand. I’ve thought about getting this, since we have three remotes that are constantly getting lost.
I think I would have to buy some velcro and attach the wand to the wall so it doesn’t get lost. I mean, you won’t be using it unless you’re looking for something, so if you keep the wand in the same place all the time…and what kind of batteries to the tags take?