Dubbed the world’s first retrofittable smart lock, the SwitchBot Lock Ultra Vision Combo has 3D facial recognition and 18 unlocking methods to get you in the door in seconds.

A skeleton key, one that can open any lock, is normally something confined to the realms of films and television. But two engineers claim to have devised a 3D printed ‘bump key’ that, with a ...

He could have had the building super replace the lock, for a fee of course. Instead he had his parents email a photo of the key, which he used to 3D print his own copy.

Lock and key model Description Seren is attempting to get into her house but is having some difficulty as her key won’t fit in the lock. In anger, she questions what is wrong with her lock and key.

The lock-and-key binding is specific because it is controlled by how closely the size of a spherical colloidal key particle matches the radius of the spherical cavity of the lock particle.

Researchers reveal technology called SpiKey that can ‘listen’ to the clicks a key makes in a lock and create a duplicate from the sounds.

The Yale Assure Lock 2 Plus with Home Key is priced at $210 for Bluetooth connectivity, or $290 for Wi-Fi support. The Wi-Fi models require a 2.4GHz network.