Gadgenista Gadget Anti-Theft Concept!
Okay… so maybe my little comic was a bit too extreme, but I wish gadgets have a self-destructing mechanism!
You know, like how Ethan Hawke’s missions in Mission Impossible self-destruct…
If I can’t blow up the thieves into oblivion, then rendering gadgets useless with the press of a button would most definitely take care of gadget thievery nowadays.
After writing about my almost-dead iPod, I remembered my stolen phone again!
And ggggrrrr, I sure wish that IMEI blocking worked!
( Image source: http://www.thetick.ws/ )
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b5media - Safari Will Rule the World, Russians Run Bogus Windows on ATM, Gadgets Should Blow Themselves Up
Jun 17, 2007 at 1:05 am
[…] Funny how a Russian ATM is running an evaluation copy of Windows. Maybe they don’t know how to activate it. And since we’re on the topic of piracy and stealing, our resident Gadgenista has outlined, in simple terms, why gadgets should have a self destruct mecahism. […]
bea
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:13 pm
i’ve read in one of my magazines (ang dami naman kase i can’t remember na!) that you can actually have the phone blocked. as in magiging unusable siya kahit anong sim pa isaksak dun. you need to keep the serial number of the phone ata or something…geh. i’ll go look for it sometime.
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