Dock Your Keys in This Star Trek Federation Key Holder

Are you always leaving the keys to your starship sitting around? The last thing you need is some rogue Ferengi getting their hands on them and trading your ship for a bunch of gold-pressed latinum. What you need is an official Starfleet key rack to keep your key ring from getting lost.

This $39 laser-cut wood key rack comes from Etsy seller NerdySwagger. The rack has five wooden starships and five docking bays that hold onto them. The 9.25″ x 13.25″ rack features an engraved United Federation of Planets Starfleet Command logo, along with a starbase designation in the upper right corner. By default, you get Orion Starbase, but you can get it personalized with your own words for an extra $10. I’d go with “All Your Base Are Belong to Us.”

When you think about it, does a Federation starship require keys to open its doors and start it up? I’m guessing by the 23rd century, we will have standardized biometric scanning for all of our authentication systems.

The world’s first item-tracker made from recycled ocean-plastic

The choice of material for Chipolo’s latest Ocean Series trackers is quite poetic if you ask me. The trackers help you keep track of your personal belongings – things of value to you – but ironically or poetically enough, they’re made from the things you don’t consider valuable… single-use plastics.

Through a strategic partnership with Oceanworks.co to source ocean-based plastic waste, the Chipolo ONE Ocean tracking device comes made with a recycled-plastic body. Fishing nets, trawls, and ropes floating in the sea are collected in the shallow areas of the ocean near the shoreline, before being cleaned, treated, and turned into polypropylene plastic pellets. These pellets are the primary raw material used to create the outer body of Chipolo’s tracking device. While it isn’t much plastic to begin with (each tracking chip is the size of a coin), Chipolo is committed to helping reduce plastic waste in the ocean… in fact, they’re even committing to pledge $1 from the profits of each Chipolo ONE Ocean sold towards the non-profit organization Oceanic Global to support ocean clean-up efforts.

The Chipolo ONE Ocean joins its popular line of tracking devices, helping you keep track of your belongings from your keys to your wallet, or even your backpack. Just attach your Chipolo to any item you want to track and connect it with the Chipolo app on your iPhone or Android phone. You can ring the tracking device from the Chipolo App to find them, or see its last known location on a map, if they’re out of the Bluetooth range. The devices are backward-compatible too, and you can double press your Chipolo device to help locate your connected smartphone if you can’t find it. Each Chipolo ONE Ocean comes powered by a CR2032 coin battery, giving it a battery life of up to 2 years.

Designers: Chipolo in collaboration with Oceanworks.co and Oceanic Global

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Assemble Your Keys with This Avengers-inspired Key Rack

Are you constantly misplacing your keys? Stop putting them down all over the place, and get yourself a key rack so you always know where they are. And if you’re a fan of The Avengers, you should pick up this fun key rack featuring graphics inspired by Marvel’s superheroes.

ChocoboSquare makes lots of neat and geeky key racks, but this one is my favorite, with it’s cheeky “ASSEMBLE” logo, and four matching keyrings with logo graphics for Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, and Iron Man. The wooden rack will look great hanging on your wall, and is a sure-fire way for you to keep your keys from getting lost.

From what I can tell, the wooden part of the keyrings holds into place just using notches, so I’m not sure how many keys each one can hold before falling out. I think it would be better if they had magnets built in – maybe they’re saving that feature for the X-Men version. That would be Magneato. Okay, I’ll stop.

The Assemble keyrings and wall mount are available over at ChocoboSquare’s Etsy shop for about $29. While you’re over there, be sure to check out their other designs.