Cheap Cell-Phone Detector · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @07:58PM from the and-tim-gets-10%-for-fairness dept.

An anonymous reader contributes a link to a BBC News article on a cheap cell-phone detector created by six New Zealand high-school students for a business competition, excerpting "The detector, which they have called CellTrac-r, works by picking up the bursts of radio frequency activity that emit from a mobile each time it sends or receives a call or a text message. The device can detect these bursts of electro-magnetic energy up to a radius of 30 metres. It can also measure the amount of the energy to determine the distance of the mobile.", and noting "Seems like a perfect /.er hack project, and as initiator I get 5% of gross profits."

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Neat, Now if only by novalogic · 2004-07-20 20:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

... I can tie it into a cellphone JAMMER on my car, so I can detect moron drivers on phones as they come close, and jam them when they become a danger.

I can see police cars equipted with this kinda stuff in places where Yack and Drive is illegal.

These kids are rich.

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