Stop losing your, er, stuff: The Xupo smart bluetooth tracker – WIN!
A call was put out to the Smilesquad recently.
Are any of you constantly losing your sh*t?
‘That’s me!’, I thought.
Oh! You meant ……‘misplacing things’.
Yeah I get ya. I actually do that too, generally my keys or my phone.
I can open the cupboard, stare straight through the item I’m looking for and declare it ‘not there’ and the cupboard ‘checked’.
Ticked off the list never to be checked again. I’m a man after all.
It’s at this point I’m going to blame the whole hunter gatherer thing. Men aren’t made to gather. (And before you counter with the ‘go hunt the keys then’ argument. I’d like to state that it’s not a hunt if the item being hunted is static. That’s my story and sticking to it).
“Where’re my keys!!!???”, I’ll scream up the stairs to my wife.
“Have you looked in the cupboard?”
“Of course, I’ve looked in the [insert regional expletive] cupboard!!”
“No, I mean….. really looked? Not and I repeat NOT just opened the door peaked inside and shouted up the stairs at me because you’re too lazy to actually look”
“I’VE LOOOOOKED!!!!!”, I’ll scream like a stroppy 15 year old.
Down the stairs, she’ll come. You can hear her anger swelling with every footstep. “If I find them in the cupboard!!”…
She opens ‘the cupboard’, yup ‘the checked one’. She’ll then tut the loudest tut you have ever heard and in one smooth movement put her hand in and come back out with the keys. It’s at this point you need to be very careful how you play it or you may need a surgeon to remove those same keys from somewhere to the rear of your body.
I tend to lead with “I don’t know where I’d be without you!” And continue along the lines of “you’re so good to me” kinda thing. Even then I’m skating on very thin ice.
Things go missing in my house for days or longer.
TAA DAAA!! The mythical lost remote of Fan Glas has been found!! pic.twitter.com/WIim1UinPE
— DaddyPoppins (@DaddyPoppinsBlg) January 31, 2017
So.. what would I do if my wife wasn’t around and I really needed something like my keys?
Well I’d put a poll up on Twitter of course.
Argh!! Where are my car keys? Bearing in mind I have toddler in the house (and I’m a man). Reply for other.
— DaddyPoppins (@DaddyPoppinsBlg) January 3, 2017
Unfortunately, this doesn’t generally help.
And now there is a ‘walking, mumbling’ toddler in the house. I’d say, ‘walking talking’ but she doesn’t converse; asking her questions is useless, unless the answer is one of the following:
- Mammy (her ‘go to’ phrase, even though I’m the one at home with her, hmmmmm)
- Da (Yeah, Mammy gets the full title I get …Da!)
- Up (usually uttered while pulling at your legs wanting to be carried out of sheer laziness, instead of in a ‘look for the keys in the higher press up there’ type way)
- Cheese (useful, for her. But generally, not useful in a ‘lost key’ scenario)
- Ah Shite (yes this is one of her first words, probably picked up during a previous lost key episode but again not useful here).
Anyway, I digress.
This toddler (with the above limited vocabulary) only works on 2 principles;
- I like shiny things.
- If something fits in a space I’m putting it there.
Here are some examples for you all.
Banana : Toaster
Keys : Vase
Wallet : Bin
CDs : Any slot available
Once you have a nonverbal toddler with this kind of outlook on life your ‘keys posted out through the letterbox’ likelihood increases by 4000% and you will at times find yourself crawling around your house on your hands and knees looking for things with phrases such as ‘If I was a toddler where would I put keys’ rattling round in your head. It’s a given.
So when my wife isn’t there and twitter is useless and my toddler (who’s getting the blame whether it’s her fault or not) is just repeating the word Cheese where do I turn to next.
That’s where Xupo comes in.
What is it?
Well it’s essentially a keyring that means you can’t lose your keys. Well you can, but they should be easy to find. Toddler or no toddler.
So how does it work?
Easy, you download an app and put it on your iPhone and when your keys go missing you press a button on the app and the Xupo will make a noise until you can find it.
It’s the old ‘phone your phone technique’ played out with only 1 phone!! …Magical.
Aha!! But what if you lost your phone? (I hear ya thinking like a big group of smarty pants).
Well it works 2 ways. You can also click a little button on the Xupo and voila, your phone rings!! Double Magical.
So you can find the 2 things I lose most often with this handy little gizmo. Perfect!!
So what if you lose both your phone and keys at the same time?
Right I know I said it was magical, but its not that magic. You’d have to find one of the old-fashioned way I’m afraid.
Either way for £19.99 this is a pretty nifty bit of kit. Since I’ve received it for review I’ve obviously tested it but I’ve also had cause to properly use it twice.
It saved me:
- Getting a bollocking from the wife and
- Blaming the child on the fact I left my keys down beside the kettle rather than in ‘the cupboard’
The bottom line here is that I’d pay £19.99 to not get a bollocking from my wife and not give my child some kind of ‘blame syndrome’ to carry into adulthood. So if you are constantly ‘losing your shit’ then this is the product for you.
It gets Daddy Poppins‘ thumbs up!
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Daddy Poppins was sent the Xupo for free for the purposes of this review but all words his own – even the swears.
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