Lost keys,remote, cellular, wallet, etc.

Ok, lose vs misplace...

If this device - for locating lost keys and wallet - is only 75ft range, it won't be easy to lose anything on an area that small. My problem, for example, is losing small items on sand, something "really" small like 1/4" nut or some pin. Disappears instantly. But then, they can't be equipped with key-finder.

Your zapoteca indian is over-simplifying the picture. Long-term memory is more resilient than short-term memory. Perceived importance and emotional association of the event also matters.

As for lost phone (won't help with the rest of it)

I have an application on my phone, it is a multi-facated security app.

The phone is an android

The phone is a Samsung

The app has a web page I can access from my laptops and log in and say "find my phone" it will give me the phone's GPS readings and map it for me.

I can say "make phone SCREAM at me" and it will make phoen very noisy.
(By the way a phone in a black ottor case, lying fact down on a black bicycle seat is INVISIBLE (I found it without the app. put my hand on it and felt it).

The App can also "Brick" the phone (turn it into a paperweight and not much of anythnig else). erasing all the memory and restoring it to "Box" condition.

Samsung also has a Find my phone link.. As does Google only it's "Find my android".

Lost is one thing misplaced is another.

I had a zapoteca indian housekeepern years ago that forgot she promised to show up early one Friday...

"I ant you to know" she started off...
"That as you live, information goes in here" she pointed as her ear...

"And as the years pass you head keeps filling"

"Until the information reaches here" She put her palm beneath her nose (ear level)

"Then one day, something very insignificant arrives here" pointing at her ear again...

"And pushes out something very important, here" pointing at her other ear...

"Alzheimer's is not forgetting where you parked your car -- alzheimer's is when you forget what a car is for"
--Registered Nurse Sharps Medical Center

There is an interesting Bluetooth/internet finder technology. It is a crowd based app. Phones with the app pick up Bluetooth signal from nearby lost item and relay the location (of the phone?) to the owner who has reported it missing through the app. I think the devices are $30 each.

Obviously there are some privacy concerns.

We just got a new Toyota with the engine immobilizer $120 keys. We got an extra key this time, four in all. We only lost one in the 14 years we had the last Toyota.

I guess I've got the Alzheimer's all right. I opened the door of our MH in our yard to get the odometer reading for vehicle registration, couldn't see it because the battery was disconnected and opened the hood, connected battery, back to the cab - couldn't find the key to turn the ignition on. I did find it three days later when the snow melted a bit - right outside the MH door.

It's all good until Alzheimer comes knocking at your door :)...

The simplest is the most reliable. Duplicate car key on the home key ring, and another duplicate stays home.

Don't change your ways at this age, wallet and keys go to the same place on the desk every time you come home. Memory relies on many different pointers, - visual, sensory etc. Doesn't have to be logical but consistency is crucial.

Or be smart enough not to need the gadget in the first place.

I'm sure someone who is forgetful enough to lose their keys often enough to need a gadget to find them is going to remember to frequently plug in the afore mentioned gadget. Riiiiight.

Amazing I can use my laptop as a cellular. The piece can be left on charge...

-- Have to be smarter than the problem...

If you're a person who loses their keys/wallet/cell often enough to need a gadget to find them, then what are the chances you're going to remember to charge that battery every week or two?

And if you plan on using it to locate your phone, the app to find the gadget operates through the phone. Doh.

No need for GPS, it only has a 75 foot transmit radius.

Unless it has GPS chip (hard to tell when description says "forbidden"), you can only locate it within a short range.

Neither my shore dwelling nor my trailer are big enough to lose anything forever. 9 times out of ten, when I had troubles finding my keys or wallet (and once really lost them both, each one on separate occasion) - the item was not anywhere nearby. Either was left in some far away place or was really LOST, as in "gone".