Mug (ging) Shot?
He won't mind me saying so, but he's a man of leisure now after long-ish service for the government as a civil servant. He dropped out of uni, taught himself Cobol and would eventually be involved in computerising say index cards for the Metropolitan Police service.
He has offered in the past to assist with the UK governmental procurement process, which for me has always had the same attraction as mud-wrestling.
As with all of us in later life, the back-story is fascinating. But the front-story is too.
His son is thirty-ish and was emerging from a London pub recently when surrounded by hooded youths who, after a roughing up, held his phone to his face in order to (mis) use his Face ID.
I'm presuming they took the phone too as the cherry on the icing, but they were most interested in clearing out his bank account.
He did eventually recover the funds from his bank, and whilst in one way or another it will mean that we all chipped in rather than the bank facing losses, I personally would be happy to have done so.
The take-away from all of this is that BLOXLOX potentially solves real-world problems affecting millions, if not billions of us.
Unusual for me I know, as so many of my inventions have been answers in search of a problem rather than the other way around.
He liked the concept ~ I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't ~ and so before he leaves I talk him through our cloud-based solution pending its roll-out.
It led me to think that there has to be an escape mode, which in the event of mugging endlessly extends the identity parade on your phone at a single touch.
'Hold that phone steady would you? Yeah, that's gotta be my grand-dad who always took his holidays on the Isle of Man. And this one looks like Zena Bedward from my primary school class? Now this one, it's...'
Exit stage left, pursued by a Metropolitan Policeman.
