- The FAKE Keychain Car Key Lock with REAL Security Video Record, Photo Record and Sound Record!
- Spy Camera, Audio Recording and Color Video Camcorder
- Support PC Web Camera
- Micro SD/TF Card Reader
- Dimension: 6.0 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm

Specifications:
- Pinhole Lens
- Image Resolution: 1600 x 1200 pixel
- Color Video Resolution: 640 x 480 pixel
- FPS: 29 frames per second
- Image file format: JPEG
- Video file format: AVI
- Audio file format: WAV
- Color Video and Audio
- Micro SD/TF Card Slot: Support SDHC format
- Rechargeable Li-ion battery

[BoingBoing]

On a tangential note, one of us had a friend in college who was in love with car gadgets. His '93 T-Bird SC was decked out with all the goodies available at the turn of the century, and included was a remote starter. Only problem was the car in question was a manual and the parking brake was hit or miss. Needless to say, eventually the 'Bird ended up punching a hole in the back of his parents garage when he started it while in gear. Moral of the story; Don't disable the safety interlocks on your cars, kids. [TheRecord]

The type of display is more flexible and thinner than some of the current up-and-coming e-ink technologies. It also uses less battery power and the bi-directional nature of this specific keyfob from Delphi will allow for it to tell you all kinds of interesting facts about your car that nobody else will care about but you. [Slashgear]

...leaving the bar an hour early because you need to change your favorite radio presets — it's right there on your key fob. No more eye strain trying to peek out your front window to check if your passenger side window is half an inch down — it's right there on your key fob. No more staying at work all night with a half-blind dwarf and a panda bear because you're not sure you've got any gas in the car — ok, that one doesn't make sense — but whatevs, you get the picture — this fob's got a hella lot of information available to you. – Ray Wert

GM's new key fob can check fuel level, tire pressures [USA Today]

Related:
Breaking Odds! Wert Encounters Strangeness In Detroit Parking Garage; Saab Develops Breathalizer Key [internal]

Despite the fact that we know there's only so many signals our key fobs can use to transmit codes to our car for commands like "lock", "unlock" and "alarm", we're still kind of weirded out when we encounter through random chance, a vehicle sharing said signal. We guess we shouldn't be too surprised because as we were once told, after an overanxious valet locked the RFID key fob in the trunk of the Corvette it belonged to, that "there's only about fifty or so combinations between the keys and this specific vehicle." Plus, given Mitsubishi and DaimlerChrysler once had a "sharing is caring" relationship, we're under the assumption that maybe our fob shared some kind of doohickey or something with the Montero sitting next to our car. Still, what the hell are the odds of this happening? – Ray Wert

Related:
Saab Develops Breathalizer Key [internal]

First...man created car keys, and the automotive gods looked down and saw it was simple and it was good. Second...there was a desire by many to open up their cars from long distances without the dirtiness of twisting a key in a door handle, and the key fob was created. The automotive gods looked down and saw that while not simple, this too was good. Third...there grew a desire in man to have more features and "innovation" on the key fob to allow opening and starting of all manner of things, and man created the advanced key fob. The automotive gods looked down questioningly, but in the end decided this too could be good. Fourth, and finally...man desired to make the key fob part of the key. The automotive gods looked down and decided to punish man for his ignorance, saying "dude, when you lose that in your couch cushions, we're gonna make it cost like, 250 bucks to replace that little piece of crap." And the automakers looked over and saw it was good.

High-tech car keys causing low-tech hassles [MSNBC]

Related:
More key fob holiness [internal]

In some circles a "Bulgarian key fob" is probably a perverse double entendre, in others, it's merely a key fob that fires bullets. Police in the UK (Manchester, mostly) have been uncovering and seizing numbers of tiny twin-shooters, sold legally as in Bulgaria as flare pistols, but converted to fire live ammo. The guns came to public consciousness in the UK after a 19-year-old man accidently shot himself in the head while trying to show friends at a nightclub how its safety lock operated (die, brutal irony, die). Police say posession of the fob carries the same sentence as that of a traditional firearm, five years. [Thanks to RD for the tip.]

Latest weapon, a key fob that fires bullets [IC Liverpool]

Related:
The First Bus to The Road of Death [internal]