Geeky Traveller

Waterbuoy Won’t Let You Lose Your Keys in the Water

by Sherry on March 19th, 2008

As far as I’m concerned, a good vacation spot includes water - swimming in the ocean, kayaking on a river, splashing in a lake. It doesn’t matter much which kind of water (though I do prefer the ocean), as long as it’s H2O I’m happy. I’ll even settle for a pool.

What makes for a lousy vacation is realizing that you lost your keys when you’re sitting on a boat in the middle of the water, watching your keychain sink rapidly below the surface. Losing the keys to your car or your rental home would royally suck.

Although this has never happened to me, apparently it’s happened to enough people that someone created the Waterbuoy. It’s a keychain that contains a rubber balloon inside. It can hold up to 1 kg of weight and it will automatically inflate itself as soon as it detects that the keychain is submerged in water; when it inflates, the balloon pops back up to the surface. Hooray, you can retrieve your keys! Even if you’re out on the water at night, it has a high intensity LED beacon that will allow you to spot it from 250 meters away.

Because it can hold a decent amount of weight, you’re not limited to just your keys, you can attach it to other things that you might need.

It’s unfortunately a one-time-use gadget, like an airbag, but hopefully the same thing won’t happen to you twice on one trip (if you’re that clumsy, either buy two or, you know, stay off the water before you drown yourself too). It’s also splashproof, which is handy because it means it will only go off if fully submerged, not just because it gets splashed or rained on.

Order one from Firebox.com for £14.95.

(Source // Product photo courtesy Firebox.com)

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