Yea! I'm serious.. are you kidding?
This is a great product idea with great potential... and a huge market.
I think a company could easily be formed around it or at the very least it
could be a product for someone in the business already...
Heck yea...
I think I can pull together a team to design it an build it.. there are
costs involved with development however... getting financing is not my
strong suit. But I know a few guys that have managed to acquire 9 mil in VC
money before... it could be done. Let me make a few phone calls...
We could go public in about 2 years... heck it might make a nice retirement
account for someone...
Who knows... stranger things have happened before...
Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Price [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:14 AM
To: (Designers Council Forum); Brooks,Bill
Subject: RE: [DC] Warning... when attending events
Pulling my tongue out of my cheek, Bill, you got my joke, I really do
think it is brilliant and I have a couple bucks if you are serious!
Sal
Sally Price
Senior PCB Designer
NVISION, Inc
125 Crown Point Ct.
Grass Valley, CA 95945
Phone: (530) 265-1049
FAX: (530) 265-1055
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
-----Original Message-----
From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Brooks,Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:09 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Warning... when attending events
Anybody have some investment capital to put into it? I'm ready... let's
design it... where's the Samuel Adams Lager? We'll need at least a keg
to
get started... Let's see at 5 cents a share... times 2 million or so....
hmmm... we could be going someplace with this...
:)
Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
http://www.dtwc.com
http://pcbwizards.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Price [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:59 AM
To: (Designers Council Forum); Brooks,Bill
Subject: RE: [DC] Warning... when attending events
I think you all have found another source of business, the design to
secure both laptops and desktop computers! The last idea, having a car
alarm hand held type device that can be activated as you walk away from
it. Simply Brilliant! Let's go have a beer and celebrate.
Sal :o)
Sally Price
Senior PCB Designer
NVISION, Inc
125 Crown Point Ct.
Grass Valley, CA 95945
Phone: (530) 265-1049
FAX: (530) 265-1055
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-----Original Message-----
From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Brooks,Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:50 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Warning... when attending events
Or better yet. I might be more like a car alarm, with a key ring clicker
that you activate if you leave it unattended for any length of time...
and
if someone disturbs the Laptop, it sends the alarm to you remotely on
your
clicker and sounds a local alarm and tracking device option...
Just another possibility.
Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
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http://www.dtwc.com
http://pcbwizards.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks,Bill [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:11 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Warning... when attending events
Great idea Dee!
If someone picked it up and moved it could have a screen pop up that
indicated the Alarm system was activated... start screaming a siren
noise
and dial your cell phone to notify you... then transmit its location so
it
can be tracked. If the Lap top had a 'cell phone' type video camera
built in
you might even get a shot of the perpetrator!
I like it...:)
Best regards,
Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
http://www.dtwc.com
http://pcbwizards.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Dee Stover [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:03 AM
To: (Designers Council Forum); Brooks,Bill
Subject: Re: [DC] Warning... when attending events
A motion sensor - transmitter / receiver so the you have an idea when
the
laptop first gets on the move. Alarm goes off and tracking starts. That
way you can get on the move to find it as soon as the alarm goes off.
At 09:46 AM 10/19/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks George,
>
> The theft of Laptop computers seems to be more common than I
suspected...
>This could be an opportunity for a EE, a programmer and a PCB designer
to
>come up with an add on product that would protect or at least help
recover
>your laptop in the event someone tired to steal it.
>
> I like the idea of some sort of 'LoJack' tracker built into a
Laptop...
>I was discussing the subject with a friend of mine... One idea was some
sort
>of a virus-like program that occasionally pops up and asks for an ID
and if
>it's not forthcoming, the first time it's connected to the Internet it
sends
>e-mails out to the authorities with your Laptop's GPS location...
>
> Another idea was some sort of radio beacon that can be tracked with
the
>right equipment, but that might be rather expensive, how about say
something
>built into your cell phone for example... With text based cell phones
it
>could give you direction finding information... right over your
phone...
>that might make the chase more possible... and immediate. (you can't
run or
>hide... we will find you).
>
> I don't know if there is anything like this out there, but it sounds
like
a
>great product enhancement... Laptops cost as much as Cars used to... in
the
>1970's anyway, and they are expensive enough that they qualify as
'Felony
>Grand theft' larceny.
>
>Maybe if there is someone out there that wants to work on a project
like
>this we could get together and create a product and sell it to the
Laptop
>manufacturers.
>
>GPS receivers are very small now and easy to add into the Laptop
geometry...
>
>It could work.
>
>Thanks for the kind words, George... I could find great satisfaction in
the
>'thermite charge' idea.. but I want my Laptop back... :(
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
>PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
>Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
>http://www.dtwc.com
>http://pcbwizards.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Patrick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 11:09 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [DC] Warning... when attending events
>
>What a drag...
>
>It is an absolute hassle to lug everything around with you when you
leave
>the room, but with the way things are now it's the only way to keep
things
>like this from happening.
>
>Too bad they don't put thermite charges in notebooks that are set off
by
>cell phone (or LoJack trackers, but that's less fun to think about) ;D
>
>--
>George Patrick
>Tektronix, Inc.
>Central Engineering, PCB Design Group
>P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512
>Beaverton, OR 97077-0001
>Phone: 503-627-5272 Fax: 503-627-5587
>http://www.tektronix.com http://www.pcb-designer.com
>
>It's my opinion, not Tektronix'
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Brooks,Bill
>Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:52
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [DC] Warning... when attending events
>
>
>Designers,
>
>I know some of you use laptop computers in your work as I do, and I
just
>want to share this experience with you so you do not have to experience
what
>happened to me and Mary Sugden last weekend...
>
>Mary was leading the CID+ Workshop and exam in San Marcos California,
and I
>was attending it along with some other fine designers. We broke for
lunch
>and were gone from the room for a very short time... only to return to
the
>room to find that someone of low scruples decided that our laptop
computers
>would make a great addition to their personal collections... Mary had
to
>continue the workshop and test from her hand written notes... it was a
very
>difficult experience. Mary was a real trouper and still did an
excellent
job
>of covering the material and we went on to take the exam on Saturday.
>
>The most painful realization occurs when you recall that you left your
>checkbook(s), and your personal information in your carrying case, and
they
>now know where you live, what your home phone number and work number
is,
>what your bank account numbers are, e-mail, stocks, you name it...
etc...
>etc.. Not to mention the data that you have on your hard drive, that
you
>have not backed up... Laptops are terribly portable... it takes only 30
>seconds for someone to pass by and grab them and stash them for later
>retrieval. We looked high and low and searched the entire area for the
>thief(s)... and they had vanished.
>
>Mailing lists, passwords, lost reference information, jobs you may have
been
>working on, etc... this can be a very sickening experience...
>
>The laptops can be expensive, mine was over 2,700 dollars (a Dell
Inspiron
>8200 with 64MB DDR ram, 40G hd, leather case, high end video, extra
>batteries... ugh...)and they are targets of thieves, who seem to watch
and
>wait for you to make a mistake or get careless for an instant, even
when
you
>think your stuff is safe in the confines of a classroom environment...
don't
>let your equipment out of your sight... And think about what you have
on
>your computer... and what it would mean if someone managed to walk away
with
>it.
>
>Please don't let this happen to you...
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
>PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
>Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
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