Most doors don’t come with smart locks, so keeping tabs on your keys isn’t always easy. But an Australian solution could make it possible for iPhone owners.
We’ve all lost our keys before, and while they’re probably where you didn’t think to put them, that also probably doesn’t help much. Working out where they are could be the domain of something like an AirTag, providing a sort of personal GPS navigator of sorts to find things that matter.
So what if the AirTag could just be the set of keys?
That concept is pretty much what Australia’s Journey is trying out, building a key organiser much like the Orbitkey Key Organiser, but with a location beacon inside.
Journey’s take on the concept continues the company’s “Loc8” range of gadgets with the Loc8 Urban Key Organiser, a trackable key fob designed to hide keys and make itself known with a small speaker able to play sounds at 85dB. That can be triggered using the Find My app on the iPhone, while the key fob can be found using the map in much the same way.
You won’t get the turn-by-turn directions used with ultra wideband on the AirTag, but it does come with a four pin port that can see the key organiser recharged for when its roughly four month battery needs power once again.
It’ll also hold six keys, and come with a bottle opener in the design.
Priced at $90 in Australia, the Journey Loc8 Urban Key Organiser isn’t necessarily an inexpensive approach to keeping keys out of the lost and found, but it might just offer that peace of mind. Now if only there was something for Android folks, too.
