This laptop will self-destruct in ten seconds

You might think, given some of the recent high profile losses of laptops and their data, that protecting commercially sensitive information is something of a mission impossible. Well according to Virtuity, a British company from Sheffield, it has the answer in an intelligent security technology called Backstopp which uses WiFi, GSM and RFID to keep tabs on your hardware and the data it contains. The clever bit, of course, is that if your laptop moves out of the area range where it is meant to be your data can self-destruct.