Turn Old Phones into Car Alarms - saw this and wondered if it was any interest.

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Turn Old Phones into Car Alarms

filed under Cellphones
A company called Bladox is selling an auto alarm kit for cellphones that
uses an accelerometer to determine if your car or bike has been taken
without your permission, then uses the phone to call or leave an SMS to any
of a variety of pre-programmed numbers. Even better, they sell it as a kit
for tinkerers, too, so if you want to wire the phone and motion detector
into the rest of your vehicle's circuitry you can. Or if you just want to
leave an old cellphone stashed inside your car somewhere, the company sells
clip-on backs to many common phones with the circuits integrated inside.

The lesson of all this is: always throw away any mobile phones you see
inside a car you've just stolen, preferably into the bin of a truck moving
in the opposite direction.


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