After two weeks, the thief made the mistake of connecting to the internet, and GadgetTrak collected tons of info. It triangulated his longitude and latitude via WiFi (and provided a link to the location on Google Maps!), his IP address, WiFi networks in range, and the username, and even took a photo of him with the iMac's built-in webcam. The iMac and two other stolen laptops were traced to a tattoo parlor in Brooklyn and recovered.

Of course, the system only works if the thief neglects to reformat the hard drive and connects to the internet, but we'd be willing to bet that that's not as uncommon as you'd think. It's a pretty great system, as long as thieves don't figure out how to work around it. [GadgetTrak]

Constant Secure Remote Disable, as it's called, isn't being touted as a first line of defense. In fact, quite the opposite: "This is kind of like a morning-after pill, I guess" said Stacy Cannady, Lenovo's product manager for security and apparently the only person at Lenovo to miss the company-wide memo about not using awkward reproductive metaphors in PR. The update will be available as a free download for compatible laptops in the next few months. [Crave]

Mirrors, seats and air-conditioning will be automatically adjusted to the preferences of whichever driver has his or her finger on the scanner. The crime prevention factor is obvious: if the car only works for the person whose veins are in the scanner, then it won't go "brum" for someone who's nicked it &mdash unless, that is, your thief is the same redheaded mofo from 24 who sawed off the real pilot's finger in order to steal the stealth bomber and blow up Air Force One. [Hitachi via Pink Tentacle]

Just 17 mm thick, the P4425 has voice recognition for certain commands, meaning no more one-handed steering while you thump the SatNav unit as it repeats "Come off the motorway at the next exit" in its robot voice. There's RDS-TMC antenna for live traffic updates, 1.5GM memory, a 4.2-inch color widescreen and an FM transmitter so you can get "Come off the motorway at the next exit" voice guidance piped through your speakers. There's even a pre-loaded database that tells you where all the speed cameras are.

With maps of the UK and the rest of western Europe, the GoPal P4425 is out in the UK in November for 299.99, or around $600. Will this be the shape of SatNav security to come? [NaviGadget]

Anti-Theft Coffee Cup [Gearfuse]

FlashFog may sound like an in-car disco, complete with dry ice and strobe lighting, but it is actually a silent anti-theft device that, if it catches on, could spell the end of noisy car alarms. The mist is made from a combination of glycerol and water, and the manufacturers are already adapting it with tear gas and a piercing audio alarm for armored cars and delivery vans.

While the company says that there are built-in safeguards to prevent the system being activated while the car is in motion - and we're assuming they don't just mean extra-penetrative interior fog lamps - they admit that if the device is not properly installed, there is a possibility that one's vehicle could suddenly become more, shall we say, atmospheric. I think this could be one for the Pimp My Ride crowd. No word on price as yet, but there's a video after the jump.

Product Page [Flashfog Security via Wired]

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Plus, with their Accidental Damage plan, they'll fix all the wear-and-tear incurred when your laptop was stolen as well. Sounds like a good plan if you're always out and about, flaunting your laptop like some kind of hussy. – Jason Chen

Press Release [Dell]

How it works: iAlertU will detect when the Mac is stolen, which then activates the iSight on your Mac to take a shot of the thief, then triggers Applescript and Transmit to upload the picture to your website. After grabbing the shot off your website, you can send it to sites like Gizmodo or Lifehacker to ask the internet community to identify the guy and get your laptop back. Not a bad idea to make sure your $1500 doesn't turn into $0.

Click through to see iAlertU give a Macbook car alarm chirps by remote. Boop, boop!– Jason Chen

Hack Attack: Turn your MacBook's iSight into a FTP backed up security camera [LifeHacker]

This is also useful for forgetful drunks who leave their BlackBerry devices at the bar after stumbling outside to puke and/or urinate. RIM officials couldn't comment on when this product was due for release. – Jason Chen

RIM device would thwart thieves
[Toronto Star via uber review]

Not only is it colored a garish signal orange, it has a host of security features built in to keep that projector from the clutches of sticky fingers. It has a transition detector that locks it up if it's moved, and the only way to unlock it is by using a PIN number. If that's not enough, it has a steel security bar that lets you literally lock the thing down. Good luck jacking this one, thieves.

Hitachi launches the theft-proof projector [Tech Digest]

We're suckers for devices that solve a very specific problem, and these slippers do precisely that—the problem in this case being that most nefarious of crimes, slipper theft.

Each slipper has a ring at the back that you slip the legs of a table or chair into; an alarm will ring in the event that a slipper is taken and the ring pulled out. Ingenious? Sure. Useful? Not so much.

Antitheft Slippers [Seihin-World]

Credit card case that beeps every twenty seconds : Card Beeper [Seihin-World] Thanks, Akira!