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The Intelligent Door Handle
Poromenos writes "Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed the intelligent door handle. It combines a camera, buzzer, RFID locks and various other systems inside the door, making keys obsolete. RFID chips for opening doors will offer 'added advantages for elderly or handicapped people, saving them the trouble of wielding keys or holding the door open in order to get inside the building.'"
Maybe they're compensating for the lack of DRM in the MP3 format!
does it make a 'wooosh' sound?
. . . what happens when you lose a normal key?
Oh right, you can't get in.
2001: A space odyssey should serve as a warning to science that you never never ever put the computer in charge of the doors.
And we had been worried about some top down centralized approach to AI where some military computer took over the world. The truth will turn out more bottom up and this simple step will be how the revolution will start. Before long the knobs will be silently communicating and making plans. When the end comes, we will find ourselves locked out of our homes and business and sent off to toil in the Pella mines.
obligatory:
after opening does it say: "Thank you for making a simple door very happy?"
in this age of communication i'm just not getting through
Doors open you!
Yes, only The Doors songs, though.
... but I wouldn't trust a car with a Start button.
Ignore this signature. By order.
There is no evidence for Intelligent Door Handle. The common consensus is that modern Door Handles evolved via Doorwin's theory.
Here in Europe, most new cars from middle-class upwards have this.
Shhhhh! Don't tell the yanks! They're finally getting it now, only it's an expensive new feature. They're starting to catch up. They even got Fanta a few years ago!
To answer your questions though, yes, it is indeed a "cool new feature" in the states. This is straight out of the movies technology, as seen in The Transporter.
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