EkTag Blog
Tips, stories, and updates about protecting your belongings with smart QR tags.
A Scan, A Glance, And The Quiet Stories We Attach To QR Tags
QR Tags are usually sold as a practical thing, stick one on your keys, your suitcase, your dog’s collar. But people use them for more than just lost and found. Sometimes a scan becomes a small, private update, a safety check, or even a gentle way to keep a thread alive when talking feels impossible.
The Family Gift That Actually Gets Used: EKTAG QR Tags
Most family gifts end up in a drawer, right next to the mystery chargers and the unopened board game. EKTAG is different, it helps your people get their stuff back, without putting their phone number on display.
Lost and Found on Indian Trains: The Great Chappal Mystery, the Wandering Tiffin, and a QR Tag That Saves the Day
Indian train journeys are basically a comedy show with a side of chai, and sometimes your stuff joins the cast. Here are a few funny, very real-feeling lost-and-found stories, plus a simple way to make sure your bag, keys, or phone does not end up living a second life without you.
It's Just a Thing: The Lies We Tell Ourselves When We Lose Something That Mattered
About the strange human habit of pretending not to care about lost objects, and why that pretence is its own small tragedy. Do you care ? If not then why?
One Thing I Will Not Return If I Find It Randomly Somewhere, and I Hope Not to Feel Bad About It
There is one thing I will not return. One category of found object that I will pick up, examine, and quietly, shamelessly, without a flicker of guilt, keep. And it has been bothering me for years, the way a small, unconfessed sin bothers a person who otherwise considers themselves decent..
Miss Manners Considers the Parking Squeeze: On the Etiquette of Being Born Again Through Your Own Car Door
We consult the ancient and exacting protocols of civilised behaviour to address the modern indignity of squeezing between two badly parked cars like a fully grown adult passing through a birth canal.
What I Tell My Six-Year-Old About Lost Things and Found Things
A conversation about car keys, honesty, dinosaurs, and why doing the right thing doesn't need a reason.
We Asked People How They Might Use ekTAG : And Answers Point to the World of Possibilities
Most lost-and-found stories start the same way, then take a weird turn. Here are 12 everyday situations where an ekTAG QR label quietly saves the day, from parking lot dings to runaway dogs, without sharing your phone number.
12 Real-Life Ways People Use ekTAG (That Go Way Beyond Lost Keys)
Most QR tags get pitched as a “lost and found” tool. True, but the interesting part is how people actually use them in real life. Here are 12 everyday use-cases where ekTAG’s anonymous QR contact comes in handy, plus the little human moments that make it worth it.