Somebody's going to get rich off of this, well, at least they should.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_hi_te/screaming_phone


New phone will scream if it's stolen

LONDON - Now if your mobile telephone is stolen, you can scream — and your phone can, too. A new service launched Monday is designed to deter mobile phone theft by equipping telephones with an ear-piercing scream.

The screaming won't stop unless the battery is removed. Even if the thief replaces the phone's SIM card, the handset will not work.

All customers' information is centrally stored, so contacts, ringtones, pictures, texts and other data can be retrieved when a new handset is purchased. The service costs about $18 a month.

The goal of the service is to make mobile phones useless to anyone but the rightful owner, said Mark Whiteman, the managing director of Remote XT.

"We'll see the market for stolen handsets stamped out once and for all," he said.

I predict a denial of service attack ("Lawnm0wer Man") that makes all the cell phones scream at once and renders the service useless.

I never did see that flick. Worth a Netflix queue spot?

rather than less cell phones stolen, i think we're going to find less stolen cell phones returned, due to theives smashing them into a million pieces when it starts screaming....[smilie=stars.gif]

I never did see that flick. Worth a Netflix queue spot?
If you like ancient computer VR gfx and well-done "B" movies, yeah it was fairly entertaining. I haven't seen it in its entirely since it came out, though. It's one of those movies where, if it see it's on as I'm channel-surfing, I'd tend to watch until the end.