These big fobs are a pain but they do a lot more than they used to. I use a lanyard and my chiropractor visits are covered in my extended health plan.
I have my own key fob, my wife’s key fob, a Tile (locator), a condo key fob, and – let me count – eight other keys interconnected on five key rings that I always keep in my right pocket. I’ve never had any sort of issue of them fitting. Oh, and a bottle opener.
The technologies will merge as neural implants improve. In the bright, hot world of the ubiquitous-surveillance totally-cyberlinked future, we’ll all be chipped like poodles. We’ll sub-vocalize or mentally project our phone-talk, wave our cyber-fingers to pay for items or open locks, chant a PIN mantra to start vehicles. Clouds of gnat-like spybots (they’re part of the ubiquitous-surveillance paradigm) will verify authenticity of transactions and yes, accessing a vehicle is a transaction.
We’ll be watched over by machines of loving grace. Then we won’t need phones, watches, or keyfobs. They can go into obsolete device museums, XMas ornaments, recycle bins, or… who know how AIs will mutate them? If one calls your name, run!
I am possessed by two keyfobs, each about 1.5 times my thumb size. The encompassing keyring holds over a half-pound of hardware. I need a Chihuahua with panniers to lug it.
Is it possible to lock your phone in the car with that setup?
I have an old-fashioned ‘switchblade’ keyfob & a cheap, $5 key that will only open the door & work the accessories; it won’t start the car as there’s no chip in it. The phone & ‘real’ key get locked into the car when I run & I only carry the cheap, lightweight, non-electronic key.
my electronic key-fob (remote-key) attaches to the belt-loop on my jeans via a snap-hook. the belt-loop is just above the right pocket … connect the snap-hook … and let the two keys slide into the pocket. aside from the remote-key, there’s only one other key (house) attached to the snap-hook. no bulge … no keys jingling … no hole being worn into bottom of the pocket. if the snap-hook would happen to fail … the keys would drop further into bottom of the pocket.
Kind of like the old trucker’s wallet set up. :eek:
Rather than fish through the family fishbowl for keys, I’d like to carry all four keys for the family cars. I suppose you think that would be no big deal either. And the cost of duplication is less than 1% of the cost of those stupid key thingies.
Huh.
I’d never heard that term before, but I googled it… and I guess I’m a trucker. A couple years back when I had wrist surgery, I didn’t want to fumble with a purse, so I bought a small zipper wallet with a key ring, and a spring cord key clip, that I use to attach the wallet to a belt loop. The coil stretches enough that I can dig through the wallet easily, and it makes it MUCH harder to drop the wallet by accident. A friend of mine was travelling, and found when she stopped for gasoline that she’d evidently dropped her wallet at the last stop, 200 miles away :eek: - this is one of the reasons I love the arrangement (someone loaned her money for gas, and her wallet was actually returned to her, but she had a rough few hours).
I keep a carabiner on the keyring - and that too gets clipped onto my belt loop, for much the same reason **albino_manatee **mentions. Harder to lose, and also I don’t have to dig in the pocket to get the keys out, just feel for the carabiner, unclip, and pull the whole thing out of the pocket.
At such time as we get a new car, I expect it’ll have the kind of key that doesn’t have a real key. I would absolutely do the clip-on-the-clothing thing then. When we rent a car that has one, I get spoiled after a couple days. I do wonder though: if the battery in the remote dies, how do you start the car?
At least in mine, there’s a mini-key hidden in the fob that can be used in an emergency.