New car alarm system from Clifford that doesn’t blare all night, and thus avoids waking up the neighbors and annoying the hell out of me, as someone who is usually up all night blogging rather than sleeping. Instead, the Matrix RS3 actually does something simple: it alerts you via a two-way remote control that something’s wrong. Nice, but someone really needs to invent a silent car alarm that rings your cellphone to let you know when there’s a break-in in progress.
UPDATE: Reader Ole Saalmann writes in that already there are a couple of alarm systems that can call a cellphone, and even contributes a few handy links.