Hey, Stop That Guy--He's Got My Truck!

You can't go far wrong in a truck equipped with an Astrata box. The device, half the size of a cigarette pack, can be wired into anything that moves--truck, car, shipping container--to head off nearly every conceivable type of disaster.
It can be programmed to stop a drunk or unauthorized driver from starting a vehicle, for example, or detect and shut down a truck that has been hijacked, locking the thief inside and alerting its owners.
The Astrata-GLP (global location platform) is part Big Brother, part James Bond--except that it already exists, and corporations and governments are paying close attention.
Powered by GPS tracking, wireless communication, and a Linux-based operating system, Astrata is the brainchild of Martin Euler and Tony Harrison, a British accountant and an Irish technology executive, respectively, who bet that the need for tracking and security devices would grow exponentially after 9/11.
Source: Money, http://money.cnn.com