I don't know about you, but I just hate losing stuff around the house. And it's not like this is something that only happens occasionally, but there are some mornings when I lose at least 10 to 20 minutes searching either for my keys, wallet, mobile phone and so on. And I'm pretty sure this is not affecting just me, but many other people around the world.

Of course, one possible solution to this issue would be to set a definite location where you'll place your various belongings when you get home, only to pick them back up. But that only works if you're the sole inhabitant of your residence, because if other people happen to be roaming around, the situation will become a lot more complicated (especially if kids are involved).

Several solutions that help people find lost items have been developed over the past couple of years, most of which make use of a relatively new technology (at least, at consumer level), called RFID, which stands for Radio-frequency identification. And that's exactly the case with the two gadgets you'll read about as follows, the Loc8tor Plus and Loc8tor Lite, which we managed to test for ourselves courtesy of our friends from FunGadgets. And since their basic functionality is more or less the same (with a couple of differences, though), we decided to do somewhat of a head-to-head in this case, instead of two separate reviews.

Neither the Loc8tor Plus nor the Loc8tor Lite is some very new product (in fact, they've been around for quite some time now), but this doesn't make them less useful. They both provide a fairly easy way of retrieving one's items, as long as the respective person is willing to attach a relatively small-size tag to their belongings. Plus, they also deliver some other very interesting functions (the Plus model, in particular), which a lot of users might find extremely useful, either for retrieving lost property or for preventing losing it in the first place.

Also, these things can really come in handy for keeping an eye out on one's kids or even pets, not to mention alert the user when they move too far from one's location (as in the case of the Loc8tor Plus). But that's as far as we'll go within this introductory section, so it's about time to move to the review per se.