London - Buried under laundry or swallowed by the washing machine, socks have always had a way of vanishing into thin air. Now, at last, an ingenious technology company may have come up with an answer.
European firm Blacksocks has invented a pair sold with a microchip sewn into the fabric, allowing them to be tracked by a simple smartphone app.
Just take out your mobile, do a quick circuit of the room and the app will beep when it is near the missing sock.
The waterproof chip can even monitor how many times a sock has been through the wash and how much it has faded.
It’s certainly ingenious, but super socks don’t come cheap — ten pairs will set you back £117 (about R1400). For that price, you could buy a hundred pairs from the supermarket, so that a few lost or faded socks would be neither here nor there. - Daily Mail