How many times have you placed your bike keys or Wallet somewhere & unable to find it cos the location just slipped out of your mind, or has it ever happened to you that you lot some small but important thing somewhere & you go back looking for it but unable to find it cos it was lost somewhere on the road side. Well, Nokia just debuted a really cool concept in CES 2009.

Nokia Locate Sensor has just made its debut at CES 2009. The brainchild of the folk over at the Nokia Research Center, Locate Sensor is a prototype service designed to help ensure you never lose anything. You simply attach a physical wireless location tag (see photo gallery) to stuff such as your keys or wallet, and if you drop anything or it gets nicked from your pocket the accompanying Nokia Locate Sensor app points you in the direction of the item and even tells you how far away it is. 

 

This concept is good, but why use a tiny device like this with a limited battery? The device requires a software in the phone so it can be made to install on any Symbian OS phone. Instead of attaching a device that small how about just using a RFID tag sticker, something which you can paste on your item & the phone can find where that RFID tag is. I don’t know if this is possible but this sticker way is much better then using a tiny device. I can paste the sticker somewhere on my bike & easily find it in a crowded parking area using my phone.

Please Nokia, make it happen & this concept deserves a patent.