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The Guardian reports:

A man approaches a bicycle, handheld electric saw at the ready. He powers it on, starts to drill, and is shot in the face with a noxious spray that makes him vomit uncontrollably. This is the dream of the inventors of SkunkLock.

“Basically we were fed up with thefts,” said Daniel Idzkowski (top left) from San Francisco, one of the inventors of SkunkLock.

…With his co-inventor, Yves Perrenoud (top right), Idzkowski created a U-shaped lock of carbon and steel with a hollow chamber to hold one of three pressurized gases of their own concoction, including one called “formula D_1”. When someone cuts about 30% of the way into the lock, Idzkowski said, the gas erupts in the direction of the gash.

“It’s pretty much immediately vomit inducing, causes difficulty breathing,” Idzkowski said. “A lot of similar symptoms to pepper spray.”

Bike lock developed that makes thieves immediately vomit (The Guardian)

Thanks John Gallen and Bertie Blenkinsop

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

ab87a8798bc4fdfc422bbbe4bc42abeb_large92f5bc49bd46a574fc2e103eac40b70a_largeBitlock.

It’s a bit of a lock.

 BitLock is a smart lock for your bike that uses Bluetooth LE/4.0 to do away with physical keys — allowing you to lock and unlock your ride based on the proximity of your smartphone to your bike (or directly within the app). The device exists in prototype form only for now, as its San Francisco-based makers are seeking $120,000 on Kickstarter to go into production.

They already have $43,000 raised.

Would YOU invest?

BitLock Is A Smart Bike Lock That Lets You Share Your Bike, Map & Track Your Rides (Natasha Lomas, Techcrunch)

H/T:  Brian