Gait monitor detects unauthorized cellphone possession

While insuring your cellphone may provide a replacement in the event that it's stolen, nothing is stopping the perps from accessing your phone numbers and making dates with all of your hot friends. Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland think they may have the solution to this problem, in the form of a device that attaches to a phone and monitors the user's gait. If the monitor detects discrepencies between preprogrammed thresholds and the data it is currently receiving, it locks the phone and demands a password to turn it back on. The greatest advantage to this system is that it works in the background and does not require active user participation. You're still gonna need to password-protect your data for the time being, however; there are no immediate plans to begin manufacturing the gait monitor.

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