Walk to talk, new cell phones might tell users
16th Oct 2005, 11:43 GMT
Stealing mobile phones might become a thing of the past soon. Finnish scientists have developed a technology that would help mobile phones recognize their owners by the way they walk and switch off automatically if the walk is not to the phone's liking.
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