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And the problem seems to be getting worse: in the last three months, the airport collected 204 misplaced laptops.
At other major airports, including those in Boston, Chicago and New York, officials say the problem of misplaced laptops has barely registered.
So the recent flood of misplaced laptops has turned a few airport lost-and-found officials, including Mr. Hatch, into high-tech detectives.
Some laptops were misplaced as they were passed among employees, and some older models may have been destroyed by agents who regarded them as having no value.
The company, to date, has now sold over 10 million of its Bluetooth-connected dongles that work with an app on your phone to help you find misplaced items, like your keys, purse, wallet, tablets, laptops, luggage and more.
It's maddening at first — a laptop gone, an iPod mislaid, a Blackberry misplaced, a bag missing.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still looking into the loss of the laptop and has issued no finding as to whether it was misplaced or stolen.
It's especially worth activating on a laptop that you often take on the road, since such things are misplaced at an alarming rate — a 2008 study of 106 airports in the United States by research firm Ponemon Institute found that travelers lost more than 12,200 laptops a week — and they may contain enormous amounts of valuable information.
Fortunately, many devices these days are universal, thus obviating for regular overseas travelers the need to have two laptops, two PDAs and two cell phones, and consolidating the expensive and easily misplaced accessories, such as chargers and charge converters, one needs to keep everything operating on full battery power.
In the past months I have lost, temporarily misplaced or been obliged to dump a trench coat, a cellphone, who knows how many books, my laptop (twice) and three or four Swiss Army knives.
And misplaced.
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