I am terrible for losing things, I am so absent minded its ridiculous. So you can kinda guess how much I enter all my safe keeps either in Google Drive, Calendar etc on a regular basis to organise my life a little bit.
Although, this doesn't stop anything physical from going from my side, including the time I manged to lose two mobile handsets in one day, ouch.Therefore this year I have been on the hut for something to help me - there seems to be plenty of item tracking devices about to come to market too, Chipolo has been having a few issues since its Kickstarter campaign ended late last year with various recalls. Not to mention Gear Tag which failed with its campaign but managed to get to production in small numbers, but one that's managed to get it right is the Find'em Tracking card.
Its very small, about the size of a credit card or business card that could easily slip into the wallet, and the same thickness as a CR3032 battery - which is no coincidence as its powered by two of them slotted into the side of the card itself.
The app that comes with the Find'em card is pretty easy to use, although in both cases I have a pre-production app and card so I expected it to be a little buggy, luckily it wasn't. It managed to sync with the Google Nexus 5 - but the baseline here was Android 4.3 and above, it didn't want to work with the LG G2, again I guess that's a pre-production problem that will go away.
Once you have sync you can set how far the card can get before it starts to alert on your handset, which will give you its last know location, the display is like a radar so its kinda fun to see it slip out of range before havoc kicks off. The alarm on the card is a little quiet and made quieter if its inside the wallet, but you can kinda get "warmer" using the radar on your handset to locate. Plus the phone really does kick out a racket when the alarm is hit.
In terms of functions - this is very simple but its highly effective in what it does. While the card is a little flimsy it does hold true in a wallet if left or indeed stuck inside a travel case or purse in much the same fashion.
I will be testing this further and will update this page with some app screen shots, if you want to check out Find'em Tracking then head over to http://www.findemtracking.com/ and pre-order for a very well priced $24.99 !!