Comments on: Device could prevent baggage carousel hell

Handheld device out of Israel lights up, beeps, and vibrates once your suitcase makes it onto the carousel and within 40 to 50 feet of where you're standing.

[johnbuker]

So how many airport backage carousels are going to be locked down and searched by TSA because a freaked out baggage handler got the $@@% scared out of him when a bag he picked up starts vibrating, beeping and flashing?

[c|net Reader]

The idea, generally speaking, has merit. However, the implementation is flawed. Suppose fifty people on a flight have one of these gadgets -- all frequent fliers hoping to simplify baggage claim on a regular basis. If just five have look alike baggage, there will be five bags lighting up. While that reduces the number from one hundred to five, it doesn't reduce it to one.

If the device were to produce sounds, in the handheld component, that vary based upon proximity, then it could alert the user to when the desired bag were on the other side, on the same side, immediately in front, etc.

Obviously, there must be some sort of encoding to reasonably uniquely identify one bag among many with the same product attached.

[dudeluna]

my understanding is that the receiver in your hand starts to vibrate, not the bag.