Hone For The iPhone 4S And iPad 3 Tracks Your Keys With Bluetooth On July 10, 2012, by Mike

Hone For The iPhone 4S And iPad 3 Tracks Your Keys With Bluetooth

On July 10, 2012, by Mike 

 

Here at iJailbreak, we are huge fans of apps we can use to find our stuff. In the past, I’ve misplaced my phone a bike path, glasses in my jacket pocket, and my keys on top of the fridge (and I’m not sure how they got there). For the first problem, there’s Find My iPhone, which uses the iPhone’s built in GPS to give you a geographical estimate of where your phone is. But it wouldn’t do you much good if you lost your phone inside your own house. It’s also not going to help you get to your keys.
Hone is a Bluetooth key fob which can be paired with an iPhone 4S (or 3rd generation iPad) in order to hone in on lost keys from up to 150 feet away. The included Hone app displays the signal strength of the Hone key ring, while the key ring can be set to blink with lights or buzz audibly.
You don’t have to use it to find your keys. You could attach the Hone fob to anything you might misplace on a regular basis. You could attach Hone to your pet’s collar, you could duct-tape it to the remote control that always seems to go missing, and you can even keep it in your jacket if you keep misplacing it at parties.
Hone uses the super-efficient Bluetooth 4.0 low energy chipset, which the project’s creators say should last about six months. Hone is also designed to be modder-friendly, as the project’s creators have promised to publish the device’s UUID and Bluetooth proile, so Hone can be easily used in a DIY project.
The only downside is that Hone is Bluetooth 4.0 only and isn’t supported by any devices other than the iPhone 4S and iPad 3. Even current Bluetooth 4.0 capable Android phones are unsupported, as there is standard interface. (The spectre of hardware fragmentation strikes again!)

If you pledge $49 or more you will get a Hone of your own. If you live outside the US, you will need to add $15 for international shipping. The project has already been funded with less than a week to go, so if you want one, back the project while you can. Shipping is expected in October.
What do you think of the Hone? Share your thoughts in the comments section.