I like the idea of doing away with keys. Nothing frustrates me more than fidgetting with keys in the dark only to get them oriented with the lock correctly and drop them as I try to insert the key into the lock. A nice voice command or biometric should do the trick. I’m not quite ready to have an rfid tag implanted in me but the thought of waving my hand near a door and having it open is pretty cool. I don’t see it as lazy as much as doing away with an unnecessary step.

However, I think I’ll keep my key. I come from the school of thought that a lock just keeps an honest person honest; but we might as well give the crook a little bit of a challenge.

I saw this before though and the concept is pretty scary. What I don’t understand is, how much of a burden is it really to stick the hardware key into the freakin’ lock? Are we really ALL that freakin’ lazy that doing that is simply too much effort?