Wireless LAN technology has a lot of advantages, which we constantly hear about. However, as most of the technologies on the Earth it has its disadvantages as well. One of such drawbacks is that you need to power on your notebook to see, if there is a Wi-Fi coverage in the particular point. It is not easy task if you carry your notebook in bag, or drive a car. Additionally, you have to wait for notebook to boot up and also keep in mind the fact that batteries in notebooks are discharging. All in all, in order not to cope with all those actions I mentioned, you need a device, able to detect WLAN coverage quickly and easily.

The working team of Kensington, a manufacturer of a broad assortment of various devices, thought in the same way and recently the company announced such device branded “WiFi Finder” (the name is not surprising, I guess). The device has dimensions of 2.95" x 0.39" x 2.17" (7.5 x 1 x 5.5cm) (length, height, width), three lights and the only button. Unfortunately, there is no information about the weight of this WiFi finder, but, bearing in mind its dimensions, it has to be light.

The button, of course, starts the search for the wireless LAN signal and if one is found, lights will show its strength. Easy, isn’t it? Kensington claims that its device is able to find 802.11b and 802.11g signals, if the hot-spot is up to 200 feet (about 60 meters) away (without any obstacles, I suppose) and to filter out other wireless signals (Bluetooth, for example). No claims are made about battery life. Pricing details also remain unknown.

Product photo can be found on the Kensington web-site over here.