They say fall seven times but wake up eight times, despite the fact that Kevin Muriithi, founder of Nerdcorp, lost three laptops and took upto 3years of trial and error trying to make the perfect device to track lost laptops, he has finally done it. The Matrix Blackbox, as it is called, is an innovation that will blow your mind. This small device is a laptop tracker that uses GPS and has a backup of GPRS just in case it cannot get the GPS coordinates to help you track your stolen laptop. The GPS and GPRS systems are now with up to 5metres accuracy which helps you pin-point the exact location of your stolen laptop.

Apart from tracking which is supported by text based commands sent to the tracker from your mobile phone, this amazing innovation also acts as a WI-FI hotspot that can support upto unlimited number of phones and laptops and the device can also help you spy on whoever is close to your laptop.

Wondering how the Matrix Blackbox is powered? Worry not. The Matrix Blackbox comes with its own battery that ensures that even when your laptop is shutdown the Blackbox is still on. What’s more exciting is that the battery has up to 12-48hours of life after the laptop has been shut down. The battery is charged once you plug your laptop charger to your laptop and this does not affect the performance of the laptop in any way.

I believe this is a life changing innovation that will help curb the problem of laptop thefts that has been on the rise.