Worried about losing your expensive Apple device? Try this.

Everyone who’s ever bought an Apple product (or any piece of technology for that matter) knows they can be quite expensive. Losing something with such a large monetary or personal investment behind it would certainly ruin your day regardless of what may have happened beforehand. That’s why it’s important to take the extra step to put yourself in the best position if something like this were to happen (maybe the developer who left the iPhone at a bar should read this). While the only thing that can be done to prevent yourself from losing a device is simply being careful, there may be one thing you can do to help yourself out if you ever do accidentally lose on of these devices. What is it? Put your trust in the good samaritans left in the world.

TigerTag does just that. Here’s how it works. First, you set up an account using your email address of Facebook. Then, you begin registering your devices with their website in order to keep track of them. This is done by simply entering in a few details about them in your account. However, the awesome part is how TigerTag plans to help find these devices are they to be lost. Using simple stickers about a centimeter long and a third of a centimeter or so tall, you can log ID numbers of your devices. The stickers, which can be ordered in sets of ten from their site for solely the cost of shipping, read “Return for reward. TigerTag.com.” and then a serial number unique to that sticker. Put this sticker somewhere on your device, log the number, and you’re done. Better yet, if you don’t want stickers you can even simply etch or create your own way of putting the notification and ID on the device.

Now, how does this help you if you are to lose the device? Well, assuming the person who finds it intends on returning it, hopefully they will find this sticker and go to TigerTag’s site. When they do so, they’ll have the option to enter the ID number into their database where the finder will then have access to the email address of the person who lost the device. The intent is that this will lead to some sort of resolution among the finder and the loser for returning the item.

Even though relying on the good intentions of others may be iffy, this is definitely a simple way to at least assure a tad bit more piece of mind when you lose your gadgets. Although I am extremely careful with where I put mine, I’ve already placed their stickers on my iPhone, Nikon D90, wallet, MacBook Pro, and iPad. Who knows, maybe one day it will come in handy. If not, well at least I tried. Go ahead, check the site and idea out, it’s definitely a neat idea that takes advantage of how tech centric our lives have become.