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How To Hide Your House Keys In Plain Sight

Your welcome mat is not a secure key repository, neither is the frame over your door or the suspicious foam-rubber “rock” lurking suspiciously next to your stoop. You might as well leave your doors unlocked. Instead hide your spare where nobody will ever think to look — in plain sight.


Hilarious Car Key Hack Lets You Drive It Like You Stole It

If your daily commute has become mundane and boring, you can easily spice things up with this clever hack that makes it feel like you’ve just jacked someone’s ride. All you need is an old screwdriver — the more worn it is the more convincing the effect will be — and a car key you’re willing to hack to bits.


You Can Theoretically Open Any Door With A Tiny Chainsaw In Your Pocket

If you don’t mind having your pockets filled with novelty knick-knacks when you head out the door, you can adorably dress up your keys with these plastic covers that make them look like tiny chainsaws. They can’t cut anything — except for maybe soft butter and packing tape — but they do light up and play realistic chainsaw sound effects.


How Keys Work Explained In One Perfect Animated GIF

Ever wondered how a key opens a lock? Wonder no more. If this is not one of the best animated GIFs I’ve ever seen, I don’t what is.


Handcuff Key Cufflinks Would Get James Bond Out Of Any Lock-Up

Seemingly targeted at dapper globe-trotting spies, or wealthy perpetrators of corporate crimes, these stylish Sparrow Uncuff Links feature a handcuff secretly incorporated into their design. Except that it’s not so secret. How long is it really going to take for super-villain henchmen or law enforcement to recognise that distinctive telling keyhole logo on the cufflinks? Not very.


Your House Key Is A Pot Leaf

You come home late at night. You’re drunk. Both of your keys look the same. Oh god, oh god, you’re so wasted, you really want a taco, and damnit, which key is it? Consider the problem solved with Good Worth’s awesome little trinkets, because you’ll never forget the cannabis leaf is for the front door and the middle finger key is for the building. Eureka!


Is A Phone Case And Wallet Combo A Great Idea Or A Terrible Mistake?

Either you lose everything — phone, keys, wallet — all at once. Or you never lose any of them because at any given point you are using one, so the other two will always be accounted for as well.


I Want To Change All My Keys To These Badass Brass Middle-Finger Knuckles

These brass middle-finger keys are a great example of how even a workaday utilitarian item like a door key can be worthy of — and improved by — a little design attention.


This Tiny Keychain Tripod For iPhones Will Always Be On Hand

Just like a camera, the best tripod is the one you have with you. There’s no point in spending hundreds of dollars on a carbon fibre set of sticks if they’re inconvenient to carry. The tiny Tiltpod Mobile is designed to attach to your keys, ensuring it’s always close at hand — or at least somewhere in your pocket.


Who Needs Keys Anyway?

Keys are from the past. Here in the future we have lasers and the internet and retina scanners and keypads and thumbprint scanners. Why are keys junking up our pockets? Down with keys! Down the to abyss of obsolescence along with steam-powered cars and leeches with you!


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