BookBook Hardback Leather Case Has You Covered
The TwelveSouth BookBook is what we think of a bit of a design reversal: instead of a technological move toward digitizing the book format into an electronic device, the BookBook hides yours MacBoo...
Posts tagged “security”
How Long Is Your Computer Security Password?
How timely we catch the post from the New York Times tech blog about computer passwords and the lack of security on most people's computers. One of our own contributors found themselves on the other e...
Introducing... The iPhone Security Cam App
Seems as though developers are truly taking the whole "there's an app for everything" ideal to the limit, as one company has demonstrated with their Security Cam App made for the iPhone. The best part...
Airlock: iPhone & Bluetooth Computer Security
Airlock is an affordable $7.77 OS X application which installs a system pref onto your Mac, which in turn recognizes your iPhone or iPod Touch via Bluetooth to provide user-specific access based upo...
Savant NYC Experience Center
Recently we at Unplggd were invited to the Savant Manhattan Design Center in SOHO to see their home automation system in action. Savant designs, develops and manufactures a complete suite of integra...
Heighten Home Security With Astak Mole Webcam
If you want to setup a not too expensive way of looking into your home, and getting some interesting security features, then you should look at the Astak Mole webcam. Read on to find out more!...
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...
The Solar Powered Security Light
Early this year we added a battery powered LED motion detecting light up our apartment's front stairway. It worked really well, scaring away the miscreants who often loitered around our area during la...
Free Laptop Security Option Using an Old Flash Drive
We've got a small cache of USB flash drives from trade shows, vendors and from sources we can't quite remember. The ubiquitous tech tool comes in handy in so many ways, whether it's adding Boxee to ou...
Vue Personal Video Network: Easy Home Security
It's always prudent to install some kind of security system in your pad or home. It's not just for rich or people with big houses. It's for everyone. For example, if you've got pets and you want to ch...
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...
Gresso USB Drives Get Exotic, Priced to Match
You like speed, do ya? Formula 1 carbon fiber type speed? Well, Gresso likes speed. Which is probably why they've dedicated their latest Grand Monaco collection solely to the art of overkill - in the ...
Aegis Secure Hard Drive: When Security Software Isn't Enough
If there's one thing that needs to be secure, it's your data. Sure, some of us don't have any essential information on our computers, but lots of people store valuable data on their hard drives. It's ...
How to Keep That Laptop Locked Away from Nosy Roommates
So, you're moving into a new place with roommates. Even if your roommate seems nice, do you really trust him/her completely, with all of your belongings? We think that trust is earned and in a communa...
Honeywell Theft Sensor Protects Individual Valuables
Most homes now have to have alarm systems. Alarm systems protect homes against unlawful entry. But what happens when you have parties and people coming over and something suddenly goes missing? We've ...
Schlage LiNK Lets You Control Your Home From Afar
One of the main concerns of any homeowner is what happens to their beloved place while they are away. This is something that causes as lot of worries. You are not there and you have no control over th...
Good Questions: Cheap, DIY Outdoor Security Options?
Julian from Winters, CA writes: Hey Unplggd, I've had a few hooligans TP (aka the classic toilet paper prank) my house a few nights in a row now and it has become quite a nuisance having to wake up ...
Archerfish: Intelligent Web-Based Home Security
When you have a home, you need some kind of security system. It all depends on exactly what it is. Thankfully, condos and most apartment buildings are already secured in some fashion. From access card...
Color Pinhole Surveillance Camera Disguised as Power Outlet
We never did trust you. Maybe it was your shifty eyes, those beads of sweat always covering your upper lip, your habit of always shaking your leg while seated. We always suspected you were the one ch...
How To: Secure Your Home Network
With broadband access now nearly as common as cable subscriptions, DVRs and other tech services that many of use on a daily basis, home networking has moved forward from an "expert install" into a mos...
Catch Nosy Nellie in the Act Snooping on Your Machine
Do you have a sneaking suspicion that somebody is snooping on your computer? Whether it's your girlfriend, boyfriend, mom or kids that you think are hopping onto your machine and tracking your none-of...
Portable Security: The Old School Wedge Alarm
So maybe you're not a big fan of turning your home into a car alarm system, investing in a wireless solution that still requires you pay a monthly fee, or building a security camera disguised as a bir...
Secure Your Wireless Network....With Paint
Why is it that not everyone has a secure wireless network at home? Raise your hand if you are reading this right now and you don't....or don't know. Is it because you just can't be bothered to rememb...
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...
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