Kickstarter project, without the kickstarter! It's kickstarter-lite. umm - did the value of Kickstarter just go down? ;)
I believe this is ACTUALLY a preorder, rather than an investment that includes a "prize" if they actually succeed.
Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone
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#42We use Lockitron on our offices and it has saved us a lot of trouble. Empirically people are a lot less likely to forget their phone than to forget keys, presumably because you use your phone for so many other things whereas most keys do nothing but get you into a single building.
"Empirically people are a lot less likely to forget their phone than to forget keys," That also varies on whether you drive a car or take public transportation. If you drive, leaving your house requires taking your keys and it becomes a habit. Same with leaving work. If you drove there you need your keys to leave. A good way around forgetting keys also is a realtor style lockbox either on the door or hidden with a sp…
But the lockbox has been working just fine for hundreds of years and isn't technological enough!
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#43We use Lockitron on our offices and it has saved us a lot of trouble. Empirically people are a lot less likely to forget their phone than to forget keys, presumably because you use your phone for so many other things whereas most keys do nothing but get you into a single building.
I'm interested how you are using the product since it does not seem to be available to the public yet.
It's a ycombinator backed company:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/13/lockitron-lets-you-unlock-y...
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#44We use Lockitron on our offices and it has saved us a lot of trouble. Empirically people are a lot less likely to forget their phone than to forget keys, presumably because you use your phone for so many other things whereas most keys do nothing but get you into a single building.
I'm interested how you are using the product since it does not seem to be available to the public yet.
Well, I was interested as to why Lockitron had a pre-order page up as I own one as well.
It's differently (visually) than the version that is on the website now but, it's certainly a Lockitron lock which I purchased almost a year ago.
Looks like they are rebooting their company with a new model and fundraising via Kickstarter.
Re: Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone
#45We use Lockitron on our offices and it has saved us a lot of trouble. Empirically people are a lot less likely to forget their phone than to forget keys, presumably because you use your phone for so many other things whereas most keys do nothing but get you into a single building.
I'm interested how you are using the product since it does not seem to be available to the public yet.
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#46Why not use a lock with a keycode instead? I don't see a single scenario where Lockitron works better. http://consumer.schlage.com/Products/Pages/category-landing....
The user codes for these products are 4 digits, and 4 digit codes do not offer much security.
I had a 4 digit Master lock in 7th grade, and an 8th grader spent a little bit of time with the lock, determined the passcode (chosen at random), and then changed the combination.
I wouldn't put one of these locks on my home, or on anything that I wanted to actually "lock"
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#47Right now, the website is down or perhaps cloudflare is having issues. I did get a look and was going to make a comment (which I wanted to verify) that the site in no way shows that the company had built another product (at least not from a quick look). Now I can't even get a look at the site. This isn't 1996. Why are people having so many issues with delivering simple reliability to a 1 page website?
This is their second product. The original Lockitron came out in 2011 or so. I know many people who installed them in their offices.
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#48We use Lockitron on our offices and it has saved us a lot of trouble. Empirically people are a lot less likely to forget their phone than to forget keys, presumably because you use your phone for so many other things whereas most keys do nothing but get you into a single building.
I'm interested how you are using the product since it does not seem to be available to the public yet.
This is the second version of the Lockitron.
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#49relies on your phone working 2.4 Ghz your internet connection your power their datacenter their website software to avoid carrying a key? anyone in the area could easily ddos off your wireless more or less permanently by spamming disconnect. doesn't seem like a very good risk/reward ratio to me. whats the problem with a more traditional (read local) keyless approach? door too thick?
Or bluetooth or NFC, which to me are far more enticing.
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#50Cool and interesting idea, but for obvious reasons* I have some slight reluctance with using a service like this for my home. For less valuable targets though -- like a conference room or shared workspace -- this is a really clever solution to sharing keys. *I hate it when people say that so I'll expand. Simply put, I'm worried about it getting hacked. For instance, could you gain access to someone's wifi and then fl…
probably not. it uses an arduino mega according to the video, so you'd need serial access to reprogram the arduino.