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Old Mar 11, 2010 | 7:03 am
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garethmorgan
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iPhone Bag-Claim

This seems to be a system that uses a Bluetooth speaker in your checked-in bag to connect to an iPhone when in range on the carousel and tell you that its arriving.

"Picture the scene - you and your family arrive at your vacation destination; you're waiting with the crowd at the luggage carousel or hall. You’re staring at lots of bags, hoping to get a glimpse of yours, and wondering "where is mine; ours? They all look so similar, and knowing you have to work your way through that crowd, only to flip the wrong luggage, to check if it's yours!

You wish there was some way your luggage could say, "I’ve arrived; I’m here!"

Well Wish No More! Bag-ClaimTM has arrived too, and in a BIG WAY!!!

The Bag-ClaimTM travel application seeks out your luggage and continually signals your iPhone with a [visual and/or vibrating] indicator until its arrived and in your hands. To keep it simple, priced fairly, and multi-functional, a readily available mini Bluetooth wireless speaker, (not included) is placed within your luggage. It wakes up when it receives your iPhone Bag-Claim signal and lets you know your luggage has arrived, and it’s close by."


Putting to one side its usefullness or not; doesn't this require you to put a switched on Bluetooth device in your bag and doesn't that infringe all the regulations on electronic devices during flights?
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