There's already a product out to ensure your laptop doesn't "get legs".
It's called TrackIT.  Costs around sixty bucks.

Thomas Hybiske
Bose Corporation
The Mountain
Framingham, MA

> Cool!  Maybe we can collaborate on a design that incorporates it...
>
> Just make sure they credit the DC and these great designers for the
> ideas...
> Some contributions to the DC in the form of royalties would be very
nice...
> Heheh... A new laptop wouldn't hurt either.. LOL
> Just kidding.. :)
>
> Let me know if they think it's a viable product to use in the tracking of
> things like laptops or PDA's and cell phones.. etc... It might be just the
> thing for this sort of product... If it's pricey, maybe they could make a
> low cost version for consumer products... I was looking up some circuit
> diagrams for remote car alarm systems, there are a lot of published
> circuits
> available for devices like that...

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