The BrakeLok: Simplistic Theft Protection

Instead of all the other companies in the anti-theft world that try to create more and more elaborate devices to protect your car every day, Yanko Design has come up with a damn good alternative: just put on the brake!



The BrakeLok fits over your already existing hand brake and covers the button on the end. It will let you press the button still when in normal use. But, at any time, at the end of the BrakeLok is a key, which can be taken out. If the key is not in the BrakeLok, there is no way of pressing the brake release button, or even taking the BrakeLok off, essentially rendering the car immovable.

As with all theft protection devices, a good thief can get around it. And that rule applies to the BrakeLok as well, but still, adding more protection to your $1,500,000 Enzo is never going to hurt.


BrakeLok [Via Gizmodo]

The Prioritizer

So I came across this awesome online calculator that lets you 'get your priorities straight', as my ex girlfriend would often tell me to do.

Its marketed off as a financial calculator, but whats great is that you can use it for anything that you need to plot.

Lets take the example I used to check it out. When people ask me something like 'What's your favorite soda?', I just usually say I dont have a favorite. Lets say i actually want to see what soda i really do prefer over all the others. Thats where this calculator comes into play.

All I have to do it give it a list of all the items I want prioritized. In this case, Root beer, Doctor Peeper, Splite, Sierra Myst, Cherry Cook, and Pipse.

After i enter all my choices, up to 15, it then proceeds to ask me which I prefer over another. In other words, a complete boolean approach to the entire situation.



Depending on how many items are put in, The Prioritizer will keep asking questions until every item has been compared to every other item. In my case above, it had 2 of the above screens i had to fill out (on 2 pages).

Once you have completed the comparisons, you get a result page with a ranking of all your comparisons on it, showing you what is most important to you.




For my example above, It shows me that Root beer is the number one position on my favorites, while Doctor Peeper is the least favorite.

Like I said above, this was intentionally intended as a financial calculator, so you could of course use it to prioritize financial situations like home mortgage payments, car payments, and the what not..... but wheres the fun in not being able to decide what color to dye your cat?

The Prioritizer [ Via Lifehacker]

Dig to China!

If you dug a hole straight down through the earth, you would come out in china!

Well, thats what our parents have told us anyways. Looks like the internet gets to prove Ma' wrong again.

My gf and I were talking about this a while back and i told her I found a site that mashed up some Google maps stuff and showed you the exact spot that you would come out on the other side of the world on. So according to this, the only way your gonna be able to dig to China, is if you already live in Argentina.

Dighole [Via Make Magazine]