Android smartphone can track gunfire’s source, location and other details



Android smartphone can track gunfire’s source, location and other details

This may prove godsend for cops in India as Android smartphone can now track gunfire’s source, location and other details with the help of a small app

The little smartphone tucked safely in your pocket is a Pandora box of information. Merely a decade ago, the services and features available on your handset may seem unbelievable, but now there has been a huge development when it comes to smartphones. You can do a whole lot of work on your handset. Making phone call that was the main work of your feature phone has become the most insignificant part of your smartphone. With this magical product we can do almost everything. And thanks to ingenious developers who work round the clock to come out with more and more useful app, we are able to accomplish much more than even what a smart-phone manufacturer can visualize. Your smart-phone is worth more than what you actually pay for it given the sort of work it is able to accomplish for you. Your smartphone is set to become your wallet and in the coming days you wouldn’t feel any need to carry your valet. Google has already introduced a mobile wallet that works with Citi MasterCard, and in the future it will work with other credit cards. But this is set to become all the more advanced in the days to come.

But if that was not enough to enthuse you, experts have developed a new device which helps users track gunfire with their smartphones, popping a map of the neighbourhood on its screen pointing in the direction the shot came from. Though for layman, it may not be a big attraction but for law enforcing agencies, this is going to be a godsend.
Reports suggest that software experts in Institute of Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University have developed an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. Reports suggest that the device is helped by the fact...

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