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Morris Mbetsa, the inventor of Block & Track.

In every year or era, there would be a simple yet great discovery for all of us. Now, this new gadget called Block & Track by an eighteen-year-old Kenyan inventor, Morris Mbetsa could be one of that. The idea is simple actually. Block & Track works as a car theft prevention gadget. Here is what io9’s Annalee Newitz had told us about this stuff.

The device sits in your car and sends a message to your cell phone when somebody starts the engine. At that point, you can send a command that will alert the police, shut down your engine, and activate a listening device that captures sound inside your car. Not only can you stop auto theft before it happens, but you can get your own private Cops show when you listen in as the cops bust the thieves.

This gadget (actually it is a system), uses a combination of DTMF (Dual-tone multi-frequency) and SMS to issue command’s to your electrical system said CrunchGear’s Brian Krepshaw.

Though I still didn’t get it very much about this one. I just think that my country Indonesia will need this security system as soon as possible. Congratulation to this young gun, now we would know that even Africa couldn’t stop their native people to invent something techie like this.

Note:

Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signaling is used for telephone signaling over the line in the voice-frequency band to the call switching center. The version of DTMF used for telephone tone dialing is known by the trademarked term Touch-Tone (canceled March 13, 1984), and is standardized by ITU-T Recommendation Q.23. Other multi-frequency systems are used for signaling internal to the telephone network.

Source and image: CrunchGear and io9