After a not so entertaining run at the CES 2009, Nokia did turn a few heads, including mine with a small little thing. This is the Nokia Locate Sensor. It is a small Non-GPS based device which surprisingly has 18 months battery life. I guess the green color is with the Go Green Revolution but it sure is a sexy little thing. All you have to do is to install the Sensor App in your device and attach the Nokia Locate Sensor unit to the thing you feel you are most likely to lose, be it your wallet, car keys or your cat .

So in an event when you involuntarily lose it, the application on your phone (displayed in the above picture courtesy Nokia Conversations) will help you locate it and can even tell how far is the tag, a condition being that the tag should be within 100 meters. The Sensor is pictured below. Well, if you like this then you need to wait a little as this is still a prototype. Lets hope we see this in our local stores soon.

Just got an update from Mike over at Nokia Conversations, “The concept does support it disabling your phone but not locating it (unless say you’d set your phone up as a tagged object on another phone, such as your partner’s). However, the idea is that you’d wear a tag on your person somewhere (perhaps in a credit card in your wallet or on a pendant or anything), and you could set it to automatically disable your handset if it were to be stolen or go a certain specified distance from you. The developers at the Nokia Research Center have not yet said if this will become a product that will go on sale. But we’re sure that the hugely positive response Nokia Locate Sensor has received will certainly help influence whatever decision is made. We’re big fans.”