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Advances in electronics combined with our finely tuned ability to lose stuff has seen the market for wireless tracking sensor systems expand rapidly in recent times. Lupo is a versatile item finder that's also a security solution and a Bluetooth remote controller for smartphones and other devices.

A new app, soft-launched last week at DLD Conference, aims to take a contextual and personalized approach to managing a user's contacts. Humin does away with the standard alphabetical contacts list and organizes contacts in a way that's said to be similar to the human brain.

Button TrackR helps users track their cherished objects and innovates with crowd sourced tracking.

The StickNFind system uses a smartphone app and coin-like adhesive tags to find lost items.

Kinsight is an experimental system that uses networked Kinect cameras to locate missing objects within a household.

The new PicAnswers.com website uses visual rather than word clues to offer a solution to identifying objects, people, places paintings - anything you can photograph.

September 4, 2007 BMW has announced it’s enriching its ConnectedDrive in-car navigation system with a direct hookup to Google's Local Search. The console o

June 22, 2007 Keyword-based search engines are a huge compromise; think for a moment about the tricks you need to use to get a good specific result from Google.