Lord, I need something like this

Via GeekPress we find that someone is working on "Search engines for the forgetful - New firms zero in on tracking items that get mislaid."

I am easily as absent-minded as they come.  No contest.

At one place I used to work I was downright famous for this.  I would be running around the production floor with an order in my hand, stop to solve a problem somewhere or speak to someone, and by the time I got back to my office the order was nowhere to be found.  Of course it was laying somewhere out there, who knew where, and I had to then waste several minutes looking for it.

Today I do the same thing with countless objects from remote controls to phones to, well, anything.  The phones you can "page," but what do you do with the others?  If there were a cheap, tiny adhesive RFID tag I could attach to objects, I could use hundreds of them, I think.  Tag everything in the house smaller than a breadbox.  Even my brain, as I mislay that often as well.

Comments

[Phoenix]

I have this problem, too. But it's not because I'm industriously running around doing productive things. It's because I wander around aimlessly while my mind goes on creative trips. That is to say, you could say my mind is doing the same thing my body is, but I want to sound at least a bit productive if not intelligent. It's that while I'm wandering, physically wandering, the powerful magnetotron in my refridgerator attracts me to it without my being aware of it happening. I wake up staring into the refridgerator looking to see if some food might have magically appeared since the last time I was forced to open the door and look in. It is witchcraft if you ask me. Coming-to thirty times a day with your head in the refridgerator is enough to make you wonder, not that I do, but I'm just sayin......