Apartment Therapy Tagged: Lock

The Secret Knock Which Unlocks Your Front Door

A secret knock can get you into a lot of places. This is the first time that we have seen a knock which could actually open a lock automatically. Steve Hoefer came up with this ingenious way of unloc...

FaceID Let's You Unlock Your Front Door With Your Face!

We know that biometric security, which involves scanning fingerprints or retinas, is quite common in banks and the like, but what if you could simply unlock your front door with your face? It's not li...

Remote Home Security with Kwikset Connected Locks

What if you could create a copy of your house key, but have the ability to destroy it in thin air from miles away? That would sure come in handy when your recently ex'd boyfriend tells you he "lost" t...

Nintendo Keyless Entry System

This is not another useful hack of the Wii (like our post on How To: Wii-mote Control Your Curtains), but it's close. This hack from Instructables user action_owl takes advantage of a CD-Rom drive and...

Secure Lego Safe: Harder to Break Into Than You'd Think

When you think about where you're going to place your valuable and secure documents, it's pretty much expected that you'll buy a safe and put it up on a shelf in your closet somewhere. We've watched T...

Remock: Keyless Entry for Your Home

If having the lock to your front door connected and operable through the internet is still a little too tech savvy for comfort, then perhaps something that isn't so accessible but still as convenient...

Schlage LiNK: Open Your Front Door Through the Internet

Part of us thinks this is cool and part of us is freaked out about the concept. While there are concepts for keyless residential doorlocks and the more familiar combination residential door locks, Sc...

News: The First Cell Phone/Car Key Remote Hybrid is Here

If you're like us, you've got a short, memorized checklist of things you need before you walk out your door. (If you're a good little AT'er, you've got them all up on your landing strip). Ours is car...

Sticky-Fingers Office? Keep that iPod Under Lock

Last year at our Alma Mater, iPods were the largest theft item on campus, easily knocking laptops and bikes out of the top spot. If you know a similar spot where sticky fingers lurk around every corne...

Get Military-Grade Encryption with the IronKey

What do you keep on your USB flash drive? We only really keep it stocked with copies of whatever projects we're working on at the moment. In the life of a blogger, it's certainly not anything too inte...