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Kid Missing Backpack? Comcast Says Accord With Tile Could Help Find It

Comcast's Xfinity Home customers can use their Xfinity X1 voice remote to locate Tile devices and see the result of their search on TV, Comcast blogged Thursday. It’s the first video and voice control partnership for Tile, whose trackers can…

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be attached to cars, backpacks, suitcases, keys and wallets to help users locate them. Sri Solur, senior vice president at Comcast, said the partnership solves “real-life problems,” giving the example of a child coming home from school without his backpack and a parent being able to see the pack is at school by asking the X1 remote.