Losing stuff is a thing of the past with iPurse

They're in Salik tags, bus or train tickets, on products that companies want to keep track of — the list of uses of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is endless.
The technology took a fun twist when a professor from the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) and two of his students invented the iPurse, which will ensure that you never lose your car keys, laptop, wallet or even your lipstick again.
"RFID is a very common thing but what's unique about this project is that it's more consumer-based and it's an intelligent purse," said Dr Mohammad Watfa, assistant professor in UOWD's department of computer science, who built the iPurse with his students Manprabhjot Kaur and Rashida Daruwala.
International interest

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The project is under patent and has already received interest from international companies who want to look at ways to commercialise the invention.
The team thought of the idea when Kaur and Daruwala stated their intentions to base their final-year project around how people could track lost items because they themselves were always losing things.