Security Ring Keeps Nosy Co-Workers at Bay

Instead of always having to remember to lock your desktop when you go for a whiz at work, this Security Ring by designer Yang Hai takes care of all of that for you. You put the ring on one of your fingers, and when it gets a certain distance away from the base station (which is connected to your computer), all your programs get locked. We've set up our machines to do the same thing with Bluetooth cellphones, but a ring is much easier to remember. Too bad it's only a design, because we could see ourselves using this for other purposes as well. [Yanko Design]

7:00 PM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By Jason Chen
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djdare at 07:26 PM on 07/18/07
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Yah, until someone really wants access to your machine, then bam, you have a new nickname "4 Fingers Chen"
Abnormal at 07:35 PM on 07/18/07
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They just need to combine this with the vibrating alarm ring and I would buy it.
sygyzy at 08:05 PM on 07/18/07
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What bluetooth software do you use to lock your computers?
DestroyerMTL at 08:16 PM on 07/18/07
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Salling Clicker will do it.
twoback at 08:21 PM on 07/18/07
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Sygyzy: Salling Clicker has a script out that now does this with its software [www.sallingsoftware.com]
Oneon1isto at 08:28 PM on 07/18/07
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Uh, what other purposes do you have in mind?

I'm stumped.
Rick Lobrecht at 08:49 PM on 07/18/07
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I use USBWiSec [sourceforge.net] along with these little cheap USB wireless presence devices. [www.amazon.com] I paid less than the $20, but this is the first one that a quick search turned up.
AmishJohn at 08:51 PM on 07/18/07
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@Oneon1isto:
C'mon, it's Jason! This thing is gonna end up in someone's pants!
o0adam0o at 08:58 PM on 07/18/07
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Ok, someone link me to an Windows Moblile app that does this thru bluetooth.

Thank you.
psxndc at 10:16 PM on 07/18/07
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With all these ring designs lately, do these designers think we're the Mandarin or something?
Fogbert at 11:10 PM on 07/18/07
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These systems remind me of something that was developed at PARC many moons ago. Users wore a badge that allowed them to leave their computer, walk to another, and pick up their session at the new location.

I always thought this would be good for heading to the library for some research, but.....we don't really have a research library at work anymore.
Windhawk at 11:23 PM on 07/18/07
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A non-concept version has already been reported on, right here at [gizmodo.com]

It's been around a while, and work like shit, but hey, you get what you pay for...
FrankenPC at 12:03 AM on 07/19/07
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Proximity badges have been used for years to do this type of thing. Only dorks wear badges. The ring's got bling.
pupaboy at 09:46 AM on 07/19/07
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Couldn't they have made it look like the One Ring from Lord of the Rings? Then I could rule them all. HAAAA! HAAAA! HAAAA!
freshjulius at 10:02 AM on 07/19/07
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I think a Four-Finger Ring would be more like it. With an MP3 player too.... uh oh, race to the patent office!
Worf at 12:07 PM on 07/19/07
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The quickest way to learn to do lock your machine is to have your coworkers mess with your machine while you're awya from your computer. Then you learn to Ctrl-Alt-Del, Enter or Win-L pretty quickly...