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It's based in India yet charging for shipping outside USA? From the applications it sounds like a US based company that's offloaded some development in B'lore. Is that the case?

Some functionality overlaps with similar projects like : http://www.sticknfind.com , http://www.wallettrackr.com/

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It's Indian. :) They have been at this for sometime now. Here is an article before they launched their crowdfunding campaign. http://yourstory.in/2013/08/how-a-group-of-experienced-entre...

Their shipping charges for non-US address must be because of their supply-chain. Also its quite possible the hardware gets mass produced in China and shipped to US in bulk like any other product.

I think the difference is: Gecko has added an accelerometer. Now they can add gestures, which a suitable app can then use to perform actions.

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