‘Spring Loaded’ was the phrase Apple used to describe its keynote event back in April. The hour-long video presentation captured the attention of everyone in the tech world, primarily thanks to the unveiling of a much anticipated update to the iMac. But it was another product that Apple revealed that the world has been waiting longer for.
An ‘AirTag’ is the size of a large coin and is designed to expand Apple’s tentacles from their grip on adherents’ phones, watches and computers and into the physical world. Simply put, they are small, coin-sized trackers that let you track the location of physical objects, such as your keys, your luggage, or your cat. They’re not dissimilar to devices made by companies like Tile, which have been on the market for several years, but what makes them interesting is that unlike Tile and other Bluetooth trackers, AirTags are the first real mass-market consumer devices to make use of a different technology: ultra-wideband...