We’re impressed with the GearEye Gear Tracking System currently trending on kickstarter. Using RFID technology, previously used to track everything from golf balls to luggage, you can now track your camera gear: inside your camera bag.
It’s easy: you stick small RFID “GearTag” stickers on everything. A small “GearEye Dongle” sits in your bag, and works with an app on your smartphone to automatically inventory your gear. You know immediately if something is missing. It’ll even help you find gear if you’ve dropped it somewhere. An incredible time-saver and money-saver; we’ve all forgotten to bring items or have lost items, and we’ve all spent hours making lists and checking our gear.
The best part is the GearEye Dongle + 20 tags is a reasonable $129, and additional tags are only $0.50 each. This makes the system very scalable and economical. This means you can all your gear — batteries, memory cards, even individual cables — and not spend more on tags than you spend on your gear.
The kickstarter campaign has been very successful, raising nearly 5x their goal. While there’s always risk in funding these projects (it’s not the same as buying a finished product off the shelf), there’s something fun and rewarding about helping to create new products that could really improve the way people track and keep tabs of all their beloved gear.
always wonder about the range though…
In the video at the bottom of the page they’re claiming it’s 3-5 metres.
Looks great for tracking inside the bag. What about outside the bag? If my gear is stolen, would I be able to track it down? Or would it alarm me if something it exceeding a certain distance from me?
Definitely a great suggestion to give the GearEye folks as a possible future feature to add to their app. A security alarm for your gear!
So, lists and thinking are for luddite losers? I don’t need to spend $$ on gadgets , I’d rather use my eyes and mind.
I think it would be nice for people who are at the beginning stages of Alzeimers or dementia. Not everyone has the ability to remember where things are located. Especially items not used every day. Consider yourself very fortunate if you have never spent an afternoon, or longer, looking for something.
Go Patti, your an idiot Barry Johnson
would mot put a coin on this project…range only 3m..and it hardly works only in lab environment. was a witness to it..also not very impressed by the team,especially CEO Yulia lerner which was fired from ALL companies she worked for(CMT,GE,Cortica…long list)
Despite not being able to spell ‘not’ OR knowing the limitations of consumer-grade RFID technology, you know Yulia Lerner’s history AND got a sneak peek in their lab in Israel AND just happen to be on CanonPriceWatch?
I call shenanigans… or bullshit.