Are you plagued with butter fingers? Clumsy digits? Do you find that those really important things like your keys, mobile phone and tamagotchi have a regular habit of disappearing from your clutches?
We all know what it’s like to put that highly important thing down for just one minute, only to find that it has mysteriously vanished. The universe sure works in mysterious ways, so who are we to argue when a strange and powerful force makes the decision to relocate our possessions? Ok, so it was probably our fault that it’s gone missing, but that won’t stop us from getting all huffed up and blaming any other person within huffing distance.
In order to help avoid those moments of frustration, some clever tech boffins have got a solution in the form of the clever little Tile.
You may have heard of the Tile before. Tile is a super simple piece of tech that will stop you from ever losing anything ever again. Well, except your marbles, they haven’t worked that one out yet… The device consists of a physical “Tile”, and an application for your smartphone (Android and iOS only) which keeps tabs on the Tile’s location via Bluetooth connectivity and a clever community tracking feature.
The Tile range currently consists of the Tile Slim, which is super thin (slimmer than an After Eight, but not quite as tasty) for use in wallets and other tight spots. And then there’s the Tile Mate, which is smaller and doubles up as a keyring. Both versions of the Tile are super versatile and can be used to track drones, pets, or even your bike!
To celebrate the launch of the Singletrack Partner Zone this week, Tile has sent over a landslide’s worth of Tiles (forty of them in total), which we will be giving away entirely free to our subscribers. If you would like to be in for a chance of getting your very own Tile simply complete the steps below:
- First of all, if you’re not already a subscriber sign up here
- Once logged in, head to the comments section at the bottom of this post and tell us exactly what you would use your Tile to track (be sensible or silly, it’s all good)
- We will choose the best forty comments on Tuesday the 8th November and will send out either a Tile Slim or Tile Mate for FREE
- When you receive your Tile we then ask you to share a photo of it in use on Instagram with the tags @Singletrackmag and @tiledit
And BOOM! That’s it!
Before entering the competition, please keep in mind that we will be sharing your email address with Tile and they may contact you regarding your user experience and ask for feedback.
You can learn more about Tile in their showcase in the Singletrack Partner Zone.
These suggestions are too good, I can’t win 🙁
GPS device, people always seem to be losing them. I know I would lose one so I don’t even bother buying/carrying one.
I’d attach it to my boss. Then I would know where he was and if he was heading my way, then I could avoid him. I could also then minimise the browser to hide the fact I am on STW and getting paid for it.
I would leave it in the glove box of the car so I can find the car in the car park. Lost count of the number of times I am going between levels to find it.
I’d attach it to my postman so I don’t have to spend all day twiddling my thumbs wondering what time he’s gonna turn up with my latest bit of bike bling !!
Attach it to Benny from Crossroads
Or Lord Lucan, Shergar, El Dorado etc.
I would attach it to my mojo as it seems to have got up and gone and it would be nice to find it again
My bottle, always losing it out on the trails, especially approaching doubles and drops for some reason.
Id attach one to my motivation and another one to my balls, as I seem to have lost both.
And maybe a third one to my youth and a fourth one to my alcohol tolerance cos they seem missing as well
In fact, send them all to me…im sure ill find a use for them. Ta
My fitness. I know i left it around here somewhere…
Id attach one to each of it to my six year olds cycling gloves, he is always loosing one of them. We now have a collection of single non matching gloves.
I’d attach it to Donald Trumps hair as I’m convinced it’s a fully autonomous sentient parasite sent here to bring about the fall of humanity and Trump is it’s wittless host….. or it could just be his hair.
sometimes I think I should like to attach a string to a fleeting moment or thought and tie it to my wrist so that I could walk around with it floating above my head like a helium filled foil balloon of a much loved cartoon from my youth.
Alas staring down the futility of holding onto ideas or something as intangible so as to be dream like is just that, a dream to be held so close and yet just beyond reach of outstretched fingertips.
so I guess, my bike in case some thieving ass hat decides he likes
I’d attach it to my patience, the when I lose it fixing my bike it’s easier to find!
Lost in yesterday and it’s still hiding!!
I’d attach it to my last **** so that when I’m inevitably called upon to give it to someone – probably at work, sometime on Tuesday morning – I know where it is.
This will have the added benefit of me being able to categorically prove that I actually have no remaining ****’s left to give after that point.
To find the trailhead of that cracking route from last week’s night ride – that I just cannot find during the day – and yes, there are enough riders up there on the weekend for the community thing to work!
Definitely to my helmet. It’s the one thing I can never find when I’m setting off in a hurry
I’d attach it to my ‘bottle’, as every time I hit drops nowadays my ‘bottle’ has completely gone and I could really do with it back