The device was invented by eighteen-year-old Morris Mbetsa, who lives in Mombasa, Kenya, where auto theft is a tremendous problem. Mbetsa is a self-taught hardware hacker who presented his work at Barcamp Nairobi in June. Later, it was picked up in a television report (below). Mbetsa is currently looking for funding to mass produce his device and sell it. Once he adds AI to it, the Block&Track will be able to decide when you're doing something wrong in your own car, and quickly send surveillance tapes to the police which contain evidence of your crimes.

Image above via MAKE magazine.

Self-Taught Genius Invents Anti-theft Device [Afrigadget via Core77]

Quoting from a presentation given by an Air Force Colonel, Shachtman writes:

These, "small, autonomous" machines would "provide close-in [surveillance] information, in addition to killing intended targets," the Colonel noted. And they'd not only take out foes in urban canyons — the self-guided munitions would "operat[e] within buildings," too.