A friend of mine got his laptop stolen. Another friend got her pocketbook snatched. What if there was a certain gadget that could emit a sonor and the police could track down your stolen belongings? It would be similiar to the kind of microchip that you can have implanted in your pets. If it's something small like your birth certificate, you could have a slender strip that has your name, picture and address on it--perhaps even your fingerprints.
Is there anything like this on the market now?
2006-08-21 04:39:38 · 4 answers · asked by Elizabeth S 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
http://www.lojack.com/
2006-08-21 04:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elizabeth - everyday there are millions of items stolen. Can you imagine within a month, the number of signals that would be bombarding the police. Yes indeed for items of a certain high value, but that is already done. For other items, if you get yourself an ultra violet pen and put your postcode followed by the number of your house or flat, police can and do recover property and easily get back to you. You can scratch the same details on metal items in an out-of-sight spot...................
2006-08-21 05:13:56 · answer #2 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not to be a party pooper but there is something like that for laptops which is now used widely in colleges. You can notify the company of the software when you lose your laptop and when the idiot that stole it turns it on, walahh, they track it and the person gets arrested. It truly is amazing what technology can do.
2006-08-21 04:46:50 · answer #3 · answered by foretwoone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have it its called lojack for laptops..
2006-08-21 15:53:29 · answer #4 · answered by hitech_djeric 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋