DOES this sound like something you need – an electronic gadget that helps you find your misplaced remote control, just by whistling?

Well, it’s here – but not exactly here. In the U.S., that is.

It is manufactured by a Japanese electronics Maker, but is apparently available – for now – only through a Japanese gadget-store Web site called osamanoidea.com.

The yellow device attaches to your remote and, when you can’t remember where you put the remote, you just whistle.

The device beeps and lights up.

It even comes with a plastic whistle, in case you are unable to make a pucker-up sound yourself.

For years, even the most organized people have been misplacing the remote – letting it slip down the couch cushions, leaving it in another room or losing it under a pile of newspapers. The device is small – about the size of a nickel – and it attaches to the front of the remote.

The existence of the new gadget was first reported by another Web site, called “RFID in Japan.”