Never worry about dropping your keys overboard again!
June 26, 2011 
Back on Daily Giz Wiz 149 for Thursday 14 September 2006 Leo and I had a lot of fun with the Key Buoy. You attach it your keys and if they dropped into the water, Key buoy will automatically open, expand and eject an upright 14" bright orange air tube straight up into air. It didn’t work as planned and looked pretty funny. Today there’s a different, more feature laden device called Waterbuoy. (It’s from a different company too.) It not only can prevent your keys from sinking, but you can use one to float any of your valuables up to 2.2 pounds. If you need to protect something heavier, just attach multiple Waterbuoys. Before I tried it for the very first time, I waited until we were recording this episode of the Daily Giz Wiz. After I dropped it into a large tube of water it looked like it wasn’t going to do anything. But then the water activated trigger responded, inflating a special balloon that floated my keys to the top of the water-filled glass container. Waterbuoy reacts after submersion in normal temperatures, but the company says it won't accidentally activate if it gets splashed or rained on. Once the special balloon inflates, it should float your stuff to the surface and keep it there for up to 24 hours. A great feature is a built in flashing LED light to help you items dropped overboard at night! Once activated, Waterbuoy has done it job and has to be replaced. At the company website it sells for $12.95
At www.thinkgeek.com it’s sells for $9.99
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