safes
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Visual Breakdown Of How A Modern Safe Keeps Things Locked Up
Video: Here’s a nice little exploded and dissected visualisation of a modern safe. For this particular model, over 500 parts are used to make up the impenetrable box with 26 hardened steel bolts keeping things shut tight. It’s also fireproof to up to 650°C and has a lock with 1.2 million possible combinations.
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It’s Too Bad This Brilliant Lego Bookend Safe Is So Easy To Crack
There’s an unending list of things you can build with Lego, but that doesn’t always mean that you should. Case in point: a safe. As clever as this set of Lego bookends is, with a secret mechanism for popping the door on a hidden safe, it can pretty much be foiled with a three-foot fall…
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How The One Percent Secures Its Timepieces
How does one prevent the help from absconding with one’s fine horological collection while away, holidaying in the Maldives? With a $US200,000 iPad-controlled watch safe. Come, come now Buffy, that should be obvious.
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Can 000000 Secretly Open Your Hotel Safe?
This is a little disconcerting. Frequent traveller and caution-monger skyrangerpro discovered something bad about his hotel safe: it can be opened, overriding his own password, by entering all zeros. You might want to check your hotel safe today.