Phone neutraliser
Today's cellphones carry a wealth of personal data and can even act as mobile credit cards. But they are all too easily lost or stolen.
Fortunately, Keith Cocita of California, US, has come up with a way to prevent valuable information kept on a phone from falling into the wrong hands. If a handset disappears for any reason, the owner simply calls it up and enters a secret code. This triggers the phone to wipe its internal memory, along with the contents of its SIM card.
Such a feature could potentially be misused, of course, or the phone might just have slipped down the back of the sofa. So to prevent a needless loss of data, the phone's charging cradle maintains a full record of all personal data kept on the device while charging the battery overnight. That way, the next time the phone, or its replacement, is charged up it will automatically be loaded with all the deleted data. Simple.
Read about the phone neutraliser patent here.
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