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Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors
Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that Apple is developing technology, already being nicknamed the 'iKey,' which will allow users to gain access to their office and unlock their car or front door with a single electronic device like an iPhone. Users would simply have to enter a PIN and wave the device over an electronic pad fitted beside a door to open it. 'The device can communicate with an external device to open a lock. By way of example, the electronic device may be a model of an iPhone,' says the newly released patent application. 'The external device may be any suitable electronic device such as a portable media player, personal data assistant or electronic lock that may be used to access a door, car, house, or other physical area.' The technology behind the invention is known as Near Field Communication; it allows electronic devices to transmit information when in proximity. 'If true, it's a very big deal. As well as opening doors and unlocking your car, it could also turn your iPhone into an electronic wallet and ID card,' says Leander Kahney, a consumer technology expert. 'The trouble is that the technology hasn't gone completely mainstream. If Apple were to adopt the technology, they would likely set the standard, and that would drive widespread adoption as everyone scrambles to make their systems iPhone-friendly.'"
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The answer is that we need a larger PIN - something with a lot more than 4 digits. Hey, I have an idea (for Americans), why not use our social security numbers as PINs! They are 9 digits and completely private. (Laugh but I know people who use their "last 4" as bank PINs.)
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Being hyper visual, like reading something and a word pops in my head and I'm like, where did that word come from... scanning, scanning, there, three paragraphs ahead, frack, I've been more and more irritated having to double-take on this Phone vs iPhone crap. And now iKey. Future Gizmodo Post: iKey to Open the Multiverse. I'm like, omg, omg, omg. Like when I somehow thought I was watching a reputable news source when falling to sleep one night and the next day I was telling all my coworkers, THERE IS A FACE ON MARS! A FACE! ON MARS.
Didn't RTFA on the latest patent but gleaned that one regarded swiping a path with your finger to unlock. Really isn't this the same as using mouse gestures? Sucks forgetting your meds the same day you're unfortunately out of your other meds that usually come in a sandwich bag that you smoke and symptomatically writing and looking for an audience to listen to your irritations, which you suddenly are accumulating at a frightening rate. Reminds me of a good advertisement I saw recently for smoking cessation gum: Quitting Suck... pops a piece of gum... Suck Less. Seriously though, I hate advertising and think they're mostly great evil tendrils poking us in the eyes and ears. It's been irritating me. And we kill each other a lot and use huge amounts of resources to do it and extracting these resource probably has contributed greatly to releasing a great huge number of bad things into the atmosphere, water, and dirt and will maybe certainly kill or cripple us sometime in the next second to one hundred years. Loads bowl... suucckks less.