Nokia Locate Sensor
Now here’s something that didn’t get much attention at CES, yet has the potential to radically change the way you live your life. Nokia were showing off a new gadget in what can only be described as stealth mode – stealth, simply because although it was on show, nobody seemed to spot it!

The gadget in question is straight from the Nokia Research Center, and is called the Locate Sensor (with a name like that, you can tell it’s from their research arm rather than their marketing department!). All it is,simply, is a little gizmo that you can attach to things, and that interacts with your phone according to the distance it is away from you.

Why is this so important?…
Nokia Locate Sensor
Well, just think of its uses. Attach it to your keys, and your phone will beep when you’re about to leave the house but your keys are still in the lounge. Lose you keys, and Locate Sensor will find them for you. That alone will seriously change the way I live my life, shaving hours off every day, but there are other things this nifty gadget can do as well.

Attach a sensor to yourself, and the phone can be programmed to disable itself if it’s more than say 5m away from you – in other words, only you can use your phone (or a, quite literally, really close friend!)

The Locate Sensor doesn’t use GPS – rather, it operates using a simple low power signal, so it doesn’t chew up the batteries. In fact, it can last up to 18 months on one battery!

The Locate Sensor is such a superbly simple idea, that Nokia would be mad not to bring it into full production. I’d saves weeks of my life each year with this thing – come on Nokia, do us all a favour and out it on sale!

[Source: ElectricPig]