CabinR's travel bags keep thieves away with an annoying alarm
Not everyone is good at keeping tracks of their personal belongings, like a backpack or a messenger bag. So CabinR, a startup based out of Hong Kong, wants to help those of you who go through that feel safer when you travel. The company has created two bags, a backpack and a messenger model, that feature an alarm system powered by RFID (Radio-frequency identification) tags to (hopefully) keep any potential thieves away from your stuff. It works quite simply: There's a alarm device on the bag that you activate by pressing a button, and the only way to deactivate is by tapping an RFID plastic card on it. If you don't do that and open the bag, its sensors will detect movement and create a loud annoying sound that can only be turned off with your personal CabinR card. The shortcoming is that, if someone really wants to, they can just step on it and break it to shut it off. This is important because CabinR's bags don't have any GPS or other location sensors, so if someone...