1. Small-to-medium-size boxes, with number locks, allowing you to store things anywhere, anytime. Especially useful in common mess/refrigerator. Ideally, would also have warning posters all over, and maybe a hidden camera. Or atleast the fake red blinking light which looks like a hidden camera.
2. Biometric locks for cars. You will never lock your keys inside again. You cannot loose your keys. Most importantly, no going back to the house to get the keys that you forgot. (But also – atleast as of now – you will forgo your bluetooth-unlocking facility)
3. Doors with automatic locks on them. You know, like the car which automatically clicks shut, or the password-protected document which automatically logs out after a set time. But then, this increases the possibility of locking your keys inside…if you haven’t followed point:2. So, I would settle for a door with one of those irritating Voices, reminding/warning you to lock the door, like the Voice which tells you to put on your seatbelt, or that stupid road-map-guide-thing.
4. Sonic fences, like what a bat uses to find its way in the dark, or a dolphin uses to communicate in deep sea. Each person has distinguishing characteristics which could be programmed into the software: so you could pass into your house without noticing anything; but your friend might get a particularly unpleasant shock (!).
5. And this last one is particularly close to my hear right now: an embedded GPS transmitter on each and every thing you own, so “accio (say) purse” can actually become a reality.
Straightforward, but solutions which haven't quite "tipped" as yet...
wow! that was creative AND insightful!!
ReplyDeletei'm more of a paranoid case than a security - freak. still, i would like to own things with bio-metric locks! number locks freak me out. I am supremely absent minded & tend to forget those things easily. i prefer keys. but locking doors with key inside is another thing that freaks me out.
nice post!!! especially the last one...that would solve all your car key problems and stuff...u can just use a spell to find them!!! :)
ReplyDelete@ Amlu: tell me about it!!! the first year I used a number lock on my door during summer hols...came back and couldn't get in till I remembered the number at the end of the day!!!
ReplyDeleteBut on the whole, paranoia is preferable to freakiness. Atleast you don't loose things, because you check them so often...
@ Addy: yea, I thought you'd like the "accio" part! :-P