Can finally find my cat!

Associate
Joined
18 Aug 2010
Posts
2,116
Location
Scotland
:)

Sorry if this has been poster b4:

Cats wearing a Sticknfind sticker should find it harder to hide from their owners....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20956970

Lost and found

One sign that a technology is going mainstream is when it starts targeting pets and children.

That's the case with StickNFind - circular stickers the size of a few 10p pieces stuck together which contain a Bluetooth chip, temperature sensor and battery.

They are designed to be used with a smartphone app which shows a radar image covering a 200ft (61m) radius.
SticknFind collar Cats wearing a Sticknfind sticker should find it harder to hide from their owners

Stick it on the cat's collar, the company suggests, and it becomes much easier to locate the moggy when trying to lock up a house.

Perhaps more usefully it can also be used by parents to keep track of their kids in public by sending an alert if they are wander off.

Co-founder Jimmy Buchheim says the innovation was inspired by an incident involving his eldest daughter.

"When she was three years old, she decided to play hide-and-seek in a department store," he says. "She hid behind some boxes.

"They had to close the section down and everyone was looking for her. Imagine if I had had this sticker - I would have found her immediately."

If the launches and previews at CES are anything to go by, the wearable tech revolution is just getting under way.
 
Co-founder Jimmy Buchheim says the innovation was inspired by an incident involving his eldest daughter.

"When she was three years old, she decided to play hide-and-seek in a department store," he says. "She hid behind some boxes.

"They had to close the section down and everyone was looking for her. Imagine if I had had this sticker - I would have found her immediately."

That'd be cheating.

Pshh
 
Is this actually working and available? I'd grab a few right now! Mainly for my money as I've no idea where that ends up...
 
How the hell does the battery last any decent amount of time? Bluetooth kills phone battery for starters...
 
That is pretty cool as the mrs bought one of these, unfortunately the cats absolutely hate wearing collars nowadays to be able to try it out :(

yeah that's a bit of an issue .. mine does wear a collar but likes losing them although since i bought it i haven't had to use it to find the collar :D
 
Back
Top Bottom