Home is a place where a family should feel completely comfortable and secure. Unfortunately, the home is often a dangerous place. The Home Safety Council (HSC), a national organization created for the sole purpose of helping people make their home safer, estimates...
Haven't installed a home security system yet? Why not use a paintball gun? This video shows in painstaking detail how to connect an automatic paintball rifle to a motion detector. The setup is impractical and fairly complicated, but at least the video is amusing....
When you are locked out of your home, you are in a poor position to haggle. And unfortunately, as this LA Times article points out, there are locksmiths out there who will take advantage of the situation. Just ask Pat McGrath, who was charged $200 when he broke his...
It's an amazing statistic—400,000 break-ins during November and December. Many of those are the result of shared or distributed keys. Whether it's the neighbor, the dog sitter, the plumber, or your contractor, there are keys floating out there and anybody can get...
If you haven’t already included the phrase “Radio Frequency Identification” into your daily vocabulary, you might be a little behind the times. Better known as RFID, the technology is finding its way into every corner of the modern home, and now it’s keeping people...
In these times of PIN numbers and passwords, our feeble human minds become cluttered with number and letter sequences that grant us access to all that is important in our lives—our bank account, our email, our homes…In an effort to clean out some of the clutter, ADT...
Our homes are our biggest investment, and it is easy to become a bit neurotic about them when we’ve left them for extended periods of time. Did I leave a window open? What if the pipes freeze or leak? Was the iron on when I left? Questions like these can plague the...
Identity theft is no joke. An estimated 10 million people in the U.S. are victims, elevating identity theft to the #1 consumer concern. Prevention is critical, and of the many steps homeowners can take, the Federal Trade Commission’s identity theft website advises us...
Keyless locks aren’t new. Neither is RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). But put the two together and well, that’s a house of a different color. The Gadget Home has come up with just such a system—the Gateman MX540. It replaces your standard metal key with a card...
