God damn.. I freakin' LOVE technology!!! And yes.. those two guys were freaky as hell, that weird stare at the end?
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Something tells me people also love technology $149 seems steep, but not all that unreasonable ... if I had the disposable cash, I'd love to get one just for the sake of it
im still pissed i missed the lightbulb deal the awesome 3 for a cheap price deal was awesome and when i showed it to my gf (who is now the money maker ) she was all GET IT GET IT GET IT and i was like ...
I might get this would be damn awesome if they had a way to create a peep hole that would automatically facetime (or other mobile equivalent) you when someone knocks. Mmm.
How is a car better than a bicycle? It's technology. Automation. Progression.
it feels like they're trying to reinvent the wheel actually , it's a gizmo that's all.
Oh now come on, you're telling me you don't have ANY "gizmos" in your home? Nothing that barely improves upon what you already had, yet have it any way? I'm fairly certain there's plenty of things you have now, or once had, that were pretty superfluous compared to what came before them Nobody is saying this is epically revolutionary and that it will redefine what it means to own doors -- though just look at automatic garage door openers... they're "unnecessary" yet people love them since it saves you getting out of your car and manually opening the door.
Same goes with apartment blocks and their front doors, all automatically opened with electronic "fobs". Same difference really. It's tech that slightly improves your life. Do we NEED it? Nope. Could we USE it? Hell yeah
a garage door opener doesn't cost 149$, that's my point i guess, and besides this feels like it has a lot of room for error, is it secure? is it reliable? how long will it remain in working condition? stuff like that.
i mean yeah a normal lock can be picked too, but what's the point? maybe it's like you said " because you could "
Considerably more though, of course, that's due to the actual mechanical components needed to lift and open the door. The point still stands though; automatic doors, on general housing and not communal parking, were born out of laziness and convenience rather than necessity. Communal doors are for security, both for contents of the garage (such as eleventy cars) and also for the driver, not having to get out of his or her car to open the door in a potential dangerous and secluded area.
To me, this Lockitron isn't a necessity.. but it's still a damned fine piece of progression towards automation for your home. Like the clapper
Considerably more though, of course, that's due to the actual mechanical components needed to lift and open the door. The point still stands though; automatic doors, on general housing and not communal parking, were born out of laziness and convenience rather than necessity. Communal doors are for security, both for contents of the garage (such as eleventy cars) and also for the driver, not having to get out of his or her car to open the door in a potential dangerous and secluded area.
To me, this Lockitron isn't a necessity.. but it's still a damned fine piece of progression towards automation for your home. Like the clapper
THAT! That's pretty much what humanity has come to; they want to press buttons and have awesome things happen. One of the apartments my wife and I went to view had a detachable light dimmer, you carry it around the room with you, place it wherever you wish, and just by lightly touching the control - the lights dimmed. Wireless, touch, light dimmer.
That was awesome.
It was utterly pointless but it was still awesome.
As much as I love technology, this needs a few years before it's trustworthy. This may be too easy to hack
Even though I'm fairly security conscious, I'm also a pragmatist. In that regard, I know that most thieves aren't going to want to break into my house, much like I know that, if I had kids, most people wouldn't want to fuck them.
Of course, being a pragmatist also means that I have to admit that my home might get broken into and that, if a thief wants in, they will find a way. Also, how would they know that I have one of these so they can bring the correct equipment to hack it? Assuming that they do have the correct equipment, they would most certainly know how to disable my home's alarm system (or open my garage door using a roving RF transmitter) as well so even if I didn't have this lock, they would most certainly be able to break in undetected anyway. I remember, in one of my electronics classes in college, making a roving RF transmitter that could open garage doors, unlock car doors, and, with some minor tweaks, start some cars with a remote start system installed.
I agree with Sabin that this is one glorious piece of kit and a good forward progression in home automation. But, as with any forward progress, there are certain risks that must be taken.
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Thanks for the idea Lutz!
Well there's a few problems that make it a bit useless.
First of all, for this to work effectively, it has to be the only lock on there. No extra bolts or anything.
Second, this is very much a US oriented product; it doesn't work with most standard locks used here in NL (or maybe I've missed it, but can it deal with tumbler cylinder locks?). On my frontdoor for example, I have a tubular lock (very hard to pick) and as it stands I wouldn't want to replace it with this thing. Some people also have the kind of lock I have on the windows here; I'll need to look up what it's called in English, but it basically has a hooked bolt at the top and bottom, in addition to a twisted cylinder lock. Easy to open with a key, next to impossible otherwise without making a ton of noise.
Why all that? Because even though I live in a small town (~7000 or so people in the entire *county*), our house was broken into twice in the past decade. Once through the windows at the rear of the house (silent drill past the standard tumbler and voilà, you're in, hence the new locks), once through the front door (wafer tumbler at the time). Not a big house at all, not a rich neighbourhood, nothing that would suggest the house is worth breaking into. Just a gang that was going around the province, breaking into half the houses in any street they'd hit (and to this date, they still haven't been caught ).
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but it needs to work with a lot better locks than they show in the vid to make it secure enough
I think the solution we have here in most of my landlords building with plastic tags with RFID-chips that we just swipe at the outer door (no code, no key) and the door instantly unlocks works pretty well, I wish they'd install the same system in every tenants front door as well.
I think the solution we have here in most of my landlords building with plastic tags with RFID-chips that we just swipe at the outer door (no code, no key) and the door instantly unlocks works pretty well, I wish they'd install the same system in every tenants front door as well.
Aye, those are the fobs I was talking about. I've not seen them in a few years but they usually have them on the main entrance door to tower/block apartments... and yes, I'd have loved to have those on my front door too
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And yes.. those two guys were freaky as hell, that weird stare at the end? 
the awesome 3 for a cheap price deal was awesome and when i showed it to my gf (who is now the money maker 
) she was all GET IT GET IT GET IT and i was like ... 
They need to be rally good with security.
, it's a gizmo that's all.
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