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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital so we're here at stick and find it's actually the last possible minute of the show but I needed to run back and see these guys because they have something that I personally think is really cool now we've seen little devices such as things you can put on your keychain to notify you when you move away from your phone and stuff like that but what I haven't seen before is something that is able to achieve this kind of range and this kind of battery life so this one right here is the micro beacon it's it has a point eight year battery and a 50 foot range next up we have the standard stick and find beacon it has a one-year battery and a hundred foot range when you step up to the pro you get water resistance you also get see I'm totally cheating here a hundred foot range and a three year battery and then when you step right up to the extend you get a nine year battery water resistance as well and then I believe that's pretty much that's the advantage okay so nine you're better so this is the kind of thing if you're absent-minded you always leave your car in the parking lot this is what I'd put on it it's that small it's that small we can do b-roll it's okay it's that small and it has a nine year battery then the last one and oh yeah 200 foot range on that one as well the last one this is the rechargeable unit this is the HQ beacon and the battery doesn't last for a phenomenally long time and before you have to recharge it but what this one does is it works up to around 3,000 feet using a combination of Bluetooth and GPS technology so it can be configured to do things like show you the last place that you left a device that had this stuck to it so when it goes out of range I can go oh crap and it can drop a pin on a map you can go ahead and see where all your stuff was where you last saw it you can also set it up to notify you in the event that you walk away from something so luggage keys phones things like that would be very very relevant here but the application that I actually see as most relevant to me is putting it on something like a beloved pet or child I didn't suggest that second one actually pet pet let's just say pet and using it to find it so I'm going to be the beloved pet for our little demonstration here and I'm going to use the standard beacon and I'm gonna have my lovely assistant hold up a phone in front of the camera while I walk away so here we go guys I am walking away with it each one is what Bator here wonderful sense of people like yeah range different buttery lies thank you very much so once it reaches about 98% signal strength you know your game of hot and cold is pretty much done now unfortunately it works as as a game of hot and cold as opposed to you know dropping pins on the radar exactly around you but to me the most fascinating thing about it is the battery life because you can have all the great technology in the world that you want I mean I think something like the Samsung Galaxy gear is a great example of this great piece of technology battery lasts for like a few hours so you're constantly tethered to a wall socket this one not so much you said it you forget it you remember like once a year to change your cat's battery and then it's all good now if I didn't feel like playing hot and cold there are other options as well I could have simply clicked page it it's got a little LED on it it's got a little noise that it makes makes it a little bit easier to find I saw the LED a second ago where'd that Ellie do you go wow the LED goes off at the beginning anyway we'll do b-roll of that thank you guys very much for checking out our booth coverage of the stick and find remember the applications of this technology go beyond just finding something you can use them for things like you know in-store navigation for example if a retailer were to deploy these 9-year batteries all over their store you can actually like navigate the store and go to clothing just by following around the little little beacons beacons cuz you can label them wallet or you can label them like you know bathroom or whatever the case may be imagine a store that never had to direct people to the bathroom anymore anyway guys remember our trip to the show this year is powered by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service as well as course our memory and Western Digital without those guys there's no way we would have been able to be here bringing you this content so thanks a lot