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June 15, 2005

New RFID Smart Locks Replace Regular Doorknobs

Lockergnome's Tech News Watchhttp://channels.lockergnome.com/news [Lockergnome's Tech News Watch] The chips are so small you can hide them inside your cell phone’s battery cover, or tape it to your key chain. A back up keypad makes it easy to set up different codes for guests, children, and contractors, and the locks can be set to “auto lock” after a set period, or remain unlocked when you are at home.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Shrook.com] shrook.com : Lockergnome's Tech News Watch: I’ve been fan of the electronic keypad door lock every since I called a locksmith and spent an hour sitting on my front steps feeling like an idiot. The keypad model I chose was simple and inexpensive. (Read the complete review here.) But soon, even the keypad will seem as quaint as the old lock and key, when you feast your eyes on the next generation door locks that use RFID chips to open the…

Kinja.comhttp://kinja.com [Kinja.com] Kinja, the weblog guide: University of Michigan scientists have created the nanotechnology equivalent of a Trojan horse to smuggle a powerful chemotherapeutic drug inside tumor cells - increasing the drug's cancer-killing activity and reducing its toxic side effects.

Gizmodo.nethttp://www.gizmodo.net [Gizmodo.net] Gizmodo's Guide to the Web : Gizmodo: From EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsUniversity of Michigan scientists have created the nanotechnology equivalent of a Trojan horse to smuggle a powerful chemotherapeutic drug inside tumor cells - increasing the drug's cancer-killing activity and reducing its toxic side effects.

http://www.realtechnews.com [Realtechnews.com] Real Tech News - Independent Tech: This product was originally designed to give SUVs that dirty off-road look, which is really twisted in ways I don’t have time to detail here. But then some smarty figured out that a shot of Sprayonmud would also obscure a car’s license plate and make whipping by traffic surveillance cameras a breeze.

Facto.org[Facto.org] FactoVision: I just love Google. Besides having a kick'in search engine, a pretty good news site, and Google answers, they also have come up with a way to make requests by folks (in this case, Scientologists) to have links removed from the search index under the DMCA kind of pointless. They send a copy of the complaint to a third party and the removed links are listed in the complaint.

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Posted at June 15, 2005 06:23 AM

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