Anti-theft tech for mobile handsets

Three archetype pieces of technology, designed to cut down on mobile-handset offence, have been revealed by the Home Office and the Design Council.
The prototypes, proclaimed on Thursday, are aimed at guarding handset customers against individuality deception and gadget theft, and making phones more secure for contactless electronic payments. The designs came out of a Home Office-sponsored contest called the Mobile Phone Security Challenge.
The chief of the designs is the i-migo, a key fob that has a wireless Bluetooth connection to the phone. If the handset and gadget are unglued by over a preset distance, the handset is locked and the i-migo sounds an alert.
Conferring to the Home Office, 228 mobile handsets are reported stolen in the UK every hour.
The i-migo also offers Bluetooth-based backup for important data held on the phone.


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