Tired of wondering when your checked bag is going to show up in baggage claim? One company thinks it has the answer–and it involves your iPhone.

Bag-Claim, which costs $4.99, is an iPhone app that works with a wireless Bluetooth speaker. The app acts like a sonar system and lets the user know when the bag is within 75 feet–and then updates further with visual and vibrating alerts until the bag is safely in their hands.

The company doesn’t recommend any one speaker in particular, but points out that they range in price from $25 to $110 and often last hundreds of hours in standby mode. The problem? Many of them have pulsing LEDs that indicate Bluetooth is active–which is something I’m sure TSA employees will just love. “Oh, don’t mind that flashing light on my bag, it’s nothing.”

Bag-Claim costs $4.99 (for the app only) and is available now in the App Store.

The European Commision on Monday, April 7, cleared the way for airlines to introduce technology that would allow passengers to use their mobile phones in mid-air, but leading carriers in Germany said they would not be offering the service. The aim of the EU is to create a pan-European framework for mobile communications on aircraft, so passengers can make and receive calls, text messages and use e-mail with their own cell phones.

Calls will still be banned during take-off and landing and allowed only once a plane reached 3,000 meters in altitude.

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