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Technology is forever helping us lead better lives, although in some respects, more complex lives. If you are forgetful, two computer science researchers know your pain and have come up with a sensor that helps you to find lost keys, wallets and even cutlery.

The team that developed Kinect sensor used the system to track many objects around a house including a phone. Yes, you will never need to call yourself from another phone to find your phone.

The project is called Kinsight and it depends on many of Microsoft’s Kinect sensors attached to a computer running the team’s software. The details of Kinsight were specified in China and were afterwards reported by New Scientist.

The product tracks the locations of the objects and helps you to find them if they are misplaced. This is the beginning to answer questions such as ‘Where is my remote? Where are my keys?’ This is one technology that is the demand of everybody. We can only image the scope of this market.

Radio-frequency identification chips are already being used in offices and in cars. With innovative in technology, now we are using it in our homes. It will make life easy, to say the least.

According to the researchers, running a computer program that tracks all the things of a owner in real-time is too process-incentive. Therefore, the team based their design on the principle that objects change locations as people move them, especially at home and especially in things such as television remote control, glasses etc. That is why Kinect tracks humans and considers objects that have changed their position in their vicinity.

If this technology gets popular, it will be due to its usability and less prices. Right now, Kinsight only keeps track of objects up to 11 feet, but there will soon come a time when more changes will be made to better this technology.