Emerging mobile tech to watch out for

Inewit is a new company from Belgium, making standalone Wi-Fi/GSM/3G/wired Ethernet video cameras with backup batteries and an SMS interface. Plonk one wherever you like, provide it with power, and it will phone you when it spots movement. Or you can just dial in and see what's going on.

There's a battery in there to keep things ticking over for between two and four hours if the power goes away, and it all runs on Linux. Getting the hardware and software going was the easy bit: finding ways to sell the things in a mobile market surprisingly resistant to innovation is proving more challenging.