Protecting electronic devices from percussive impacts

A system and method detects low grade physical motions of an electronic device, such as a laptop computer, and takes protective measures if the physical motions match a pre-specified physical motion pattern. The pre-specified physical motion pattern may have been selected as a pattern which, if left alone, could cause …



Automotive collision detection through passive radio analysis

The present invention discloses a vehicular collision alert system which receives signals from devices commonly associated with vehicular use. The direction of the received signals is determined, and a heading of the signal source is also determined and compared with the present location and heading of the vehicle If the …