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A Kickstarter project aims to give you a Bluetooth Low Energy-enabled wristband that replaces keys and passwords. Everykey ( http://everykey.com ) from the Cleveland, Ohio-based company of the same name, Everykey, is a fashionable band that can be instantly disabled if your Everykey ever gets lost or stolen. You call the team or go online to deactivate it. A message is immediately sent to all of your devices letting them know that they should not unlock for your wristband. The team would overnight you a new wristband at a discount. As the team says in their promotional video, it pretty much "unlocks your life." When the Everykey wristband is within range of a user's device, the wristband will allow the user to bypass that device's password or physically unlock it automatically. When the wristband is out of range, the device automatically re-enables security mechanisms.
They say their security is military-grade. (Everykey uses AES 128-bit encryption), and they also highlight an "obsession with design and usability." Fashion, they said, was their "north star." Color options were selected to reflect a unique personality. The band has a silicon exterior with a lightweight metal skeleton. Everykey works with Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks), Windows 8.1, and Android 4.4 (KitKat). They are currently developing support for jailbroken versions of iOS as well as Ubuntu 14+ (Linux). The circuit board is powered by their custom bent lithium-polymer battery. The team said that you would need to charge it about once a month. After the battery runs out, you can charge Everykey using an included Micro USB to USB cable.
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-wristband-encryption-grant-access-devices.html
[More Info]: http://www.prweb.com/releases/everykey/kickstarter/prweb12262874.htm
What does SN think about this project ?
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday November 12 2014, @12:32PM
Even better, put the hardware in as small a case as you can, and then sell a variety of different decorative pieces that the case will fit into - then you can have it as a colourful plastic wristband if that's what you want, or a neat digital watch, or a jewel-studded bracelet, or a mobile phone casing, or a brooch, or an anklet, hairband, pocketwatch, eyepatch, cockring, Tony-Stark-style glowing chest-implant or whatever your personal reference is. You could even try to multiple housings to each customer, so that the thing can be a different fashion accessory for different occasions.
It strikes me as a fairly obvious missed business opportunity.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 12 2014, @01:11PM
How bout a hat? We know people will pay a lot of money for baseball caps and fedoras, so having a simple little "pin" that clips into a hat could sell.
"I need to log into that Fedora server so I need to find and wear my fedora"
Something to think about with phones is if its an app the security would be worthless, you know the NSA/etc own it totally. However. If there was a SIM shaped standard that provided absolutely nothing but two connections, power and ground... Then you could swap it between phones, which would be cool, and it would "always" have power, and people would "always" know there their phone (thus key) is located...