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.
Check GearEye out on Kickstarter.
