Sunday, March 3, 2013

Backed Or Whacked: Covers To Cloak Your Keys

Backed or Whacked logoEditor?s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Once rejected by Kickstarter, the smartphone-controlled door lock Lockitron was a crowdfunding hit on its own site. Still, for the foreseeable future, most locks will be opened with the insertion and turning of those sculpted metal strips known as keys. Their manual mechanics are an anathema to today?s early adopter. Worse, they jangle around in your pocket, ready to unleash their inner?Inigo Montoya on whatever naked, valuable glass-clad object that dares?invade their domain.?Recently, though, a trio of crowdfunded projects sought to establish study enclosures to organize and keep those rustling rapscallions literally in line.

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