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

["ianh1000" <ianh1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are also now some services that will give you the location of a
cell phone to within a few hundred meters so you could even us this
to locate the car!

Ian

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "John Andrews" <groups@j...> wrote:
> 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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