Brandi and I saw this on "It takes a thief" on the Discovery Channel, its like lowjack but better, if your car is stolen you can just go to this website and see a map of where your car is and disable the starter remotely and then call the cops and tell them where your car is. Well the thing uses a cell phone with a modem and you have to have a modem at home to talk to it and a separate phone line and all that jazz if you want to use it all the time. Well I found this thing that just came out that is a cell phone/gps module combination that has a built in microcontroller so you can just send it commands over the internet or from a cell phone and it will return the current location and stuff like that, you can also interface it to other stuff, like a camera that points at the driver... unlocking the doors...etc..and its cheap and you could provide the service for cheap too...another thing that we could do way better with the new technology/tools coming out. I was also thinking about putting this module in a solar powered small plane and it could fly from here and land in my parents backyard in Colorado by itself, that would be cool, electronic carrier pigeons...
the cybertrack:
http://www.spooktech.com/trackingeqmt/cybertrack2.shtml
the module I wanna use:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7917
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