Simple solution
I have mine attached by a string to the phone
Nope, still can't find them. Skullcandy slips Tile's gadget-tracking hardware into individual earbuds
Audio kit flinger Skullcandy has embedded Tile's gadget-tracking tech to help you skin your knuckles fishing out its latest all-wireless earbuds from under the well beneath your handbrake. The idea is to make it easier for punters to find stray earbuds after they somehow escape their ear canals, or otherwise fall out of the …
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Wednesday 27th May 2020 15:31 GMT macjules
Apple, which is rumoured to be working on its own gadget-tracking hardware
I would think that Apple's "gadget-tracking hardware" would be self-defeating. Wouldn't Apple want you to be losing those ear buds, or whatever they are called in their current incarnation?
Now, if Apple announced that they were going into the gadget insurance business ...
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Thursday 28th May 2020 00:16 GMT jelabarre59
Tracking
I have a novel tracking device for my earbuds; it's a thin wire running from each but, which join some distance along to a single wire, leading to a 3.5mm handle. And when they're in use my phone/tablet/computer has a handy 3.5mm holder to place the earbuds handle into.
Although I prefer those new-fangled kind, the ones that fit outside and cover the ears rather than fit inside.
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Thursday 28th May 2020 12:03 GMT Havin_it
How's that work then?
Would be nice to have included a cursory overview of how this tech actually works, no?
Sounds like something I could have used a week ago, when one of my cheapo buds leapt for freedom during, as luck would have it, the tiny section of my several-mile bike ride that involved unmaintained scrubland. Cue many perplexed passersby while I crawled slowly around with one ear to the ground hoping to pick out the faint strains of Prodigy's Warrior's Dance (the most percussive and trebly thing came to mind) from among the tussocks. Glad it narrowly missed the adjacent thistle-patch.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
