Recently, some of the more clever observers fitting human needs to existing technologies have not been industrial designers, but hackers. Last year we started seeing the first hacks that turned your computer's webcam into a motion detector; some hacks even enabled it to automatically snap a picture of someone using your computer while you were away.
Now IT consultant Jesse David Hollington has gone a step further, by getting his computer to recognize when he, specifically, is around and acting accordingly:
As an IT Consultant, I am frequently working in various locations at different clients' sites, and it's nice to have my Powerbook secure itself when I'm away from the machine. In addition, my other objectives are to keep the OS X Address Book application connected and to iSync my phone whenever it moves back within proximity of my machine.
How does he do it? Through Bluetooth proximity detection; he's rigged his computer to recognize when his phone (and therefore him) are nearby, and perform the appropriate actions. Get the applescripts to do this yourself here.
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Salling Clicker has a nice proximity sensor feature, along with bluetooth remote control and many third party extensions (search macupdate or versiontracker). Mac + PC. http://www.salling.com/Clicker/
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