Here comes the FaceID, a face recognition dock access system, that allows you to unlock your door using your face. The FaceID is able to store up to 500 faces in its database. It has a pair of cameras that capture the 3D image of your face and then uses face detection algorithm to match those faces in the database.

The 3D image recognition system also makes it hard for anyone simply uses a photo to deceive the system. It also works in dim or low-lighting conditions, which shouldn’t be a problem for those who always get home late. The system is available and can be purchased from ChinaVasion, but the price tag of $447 may put many of you off. It’s also suitable for offices, can be replacement for card systems as it also takes care of time attendance.

Please note the FaceID does not come with an electronic door lock, so you have to pair it up with one. It should be a reliable system to safeguard your home and claims to have a margin of error of 0.0001%. The very little percentage of error could probably be caused by your twin brother who has face closely resembles yours.

Buy online, $447, ChinaVasion

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Spy cameras are everywhere. You can’t simply ignore any household item around you, a plain wall socket can also work as a spy camera and take away all your privacy.

This wall-socket spy camera is voice-activated, once the voices nearby reache 65db, it’ll be automatically activated and start recording video of the surrounding continuously for 5 minutes.

The good side of use is it can be installed in your house or office to keep an eye of the environment to prevent employee, housekeeper or roommates snatching your valuables away, and let you have piece of mind.

This Wall socket spy-cam also features a TF card slot and supports up to 8GB TF card, which allows you to have lots of rooms for video recording. Everything comes so perfect and unnoticeable, no one would expect a wall socket could record video.

But the bad side is once it’s in the hands of bad guys, it can be installed in any hotel rooms that may make travelers’ privacy in danger. It’s advisable for travelers to bring along a spy cam detector anywhere they go, so they can always take a quick scan on any surrounding items.

Buy online, $70.70, Uxsight

Unlike webcam or other surveillance camera system that will normally need a computer to attach to. Dropcam is completely computer-less, the videos recorded by Dropcam will be streamed via WiFi or Ethernet to the Dropcam Internet Service, which then allows you to watch the video using a Flash-compatible web browser.

Dropcam is capable of recording video at 320×240 pixels at 15 frames/sec and 100 hours of rolling DVR. It weighs only 3 ounces and is about an inch thick. Installation is easy, you just need to connect it to a power outlet. A basic unit of the Dropcam costs $239 which also includes six month subscription of the Dropcam Internet Service. After that, the service costs you a fee of $9/month.

The device is pretty useful for monitoring baby or kids during the day and at night or small business for activity monitoring. It’s got built-in notification system and the company is working on upgrading the system to have notifications via email and SMS.

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The newly announced Origin Storage 1TB HDD has been incorporated with additional hardware encryption to protect its data. It’s also been given a promising name called Data Locker Secure Drive, to give the users more confidence on the security that it imposes to your data.

The Origin Storage 1TB external HDD is available in two versions. The Pro editions come with 128-bit AES encryption and the Enterprise version with 256 bit. These external HDDs are powered via USB port. It’s enclosed in a rugged case that should well protect it from drops. It’s equipped with an LCD display that shows status information and also comes with 2.5-inch SATA drive featured inside.

To access the drive, you’ll need to enter a 18 digit PIN number on the LCD screen. Since the HDD provides hardware encryption, you don’t need to install additional software on the computer that it’s plugged into. It is also able to detect brute force attacks, and with self destruct mode. The 1TB Pro version costs £399 (or about $650).

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Most laptop users will have worries about their laptops getting stolen, especially when they’re just a couple of steps away from their laptops. But now you can make use of an old USB flash drive as the laptop security alarm, which makes sounds when the laptop is being detached or taken away from its original position.

The secret behind is by installing the LAlarm security alarm software on your laptop. Have an old USB flash drive fastened with with a strap, plug the USB flash drive into your laptop’s USB port, and then fasten the strap to a table as shown in the few pictures below.

Fasten a strap to a USB flash drive

Fasten the strap to a table

Plug the USB drive into the USB port of the laptop

When you wanna walk away to the loo, simply press the Windows logo key and L key together to lock the laptop. So when someone pulls the laptop away, it’ll sound an alarm that is loud enough to get you quickly come back from the loo.

The LAlarm even instantly locks your laptop while it’s connected to a power outlet which you do not need a USB flash drive in this case.

The LAlarm security software also comes with a number of cool features including allowing you to recover and destroy data when your laptop has fallen into the hands of the thieve. It also has a number of other alarming functions including battery alarm (when battery is low), disk alarm (when the drive needs a repair), and is even capable of sending alert to your mobile phone using SMS or email.

For Business user: Buy online, $50, LAlarm (Free for personal use)

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Here comes a little USB Windows IceBox or freezer, which is able to let you freeze or lock some partitions on your hard drive, which these partitions can be protected from accidental deletion or virus or malware attacks.

The USB IceBox comes in the form of a USB dongle, hooks up to your computer’s USB port and launches a software which then lets you choose the partitions that you would like to freeze or protect. When you’re away, your kids play with your computer; whatever they’ve done on the frozen partitions is temporary, which can then be easily recovered to the previous state by simply rebooting the computer.

It also has an option to let you leave some frequently used folders (e.g my documents and desktop) within the frozen partition open, so it won’t affect your normal operation.

Buy online, USBFever, $19

If your computer’s stolen, the one who’s stolen your computer will not be able to get those confidential files stored on the protected partitions without the Saint key. Consider the Saint USB key as the simple and easy data protection, if your laptop is not equipped with the latest anti-theft technology, which can let you wipe off data remotely in the event of loss or theft.

Buy online, Uxsight, $13

Here comes the newly announced Fujitsu notebook, FMV-LIFEBOOK model FMV-S8390, which is specially designed for enterprise customers and equipped with the CLEARSURE technology that allows the user to remotely delete all files on the hard disk drive, in the event of loss or theft.

The Fujitsu Lifebook FMV-S8390 notebook has a built-in communication module which uses PHS network to allow the data stored on the hard disk drive to be removed remotely. If the notebook is within the PHS network range, the data can even be deleted even the notebook has been switched off. This is the advanced security feature to allow you to delete the data regardless of the notebook ’s operational mode. Features at a glance are as follows:

The additional security technology of this Fujitsu notebook has jacked its price little higher than usual, costs $2,291 and will be available in Japan in September.

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The Guardian Angel is to be launched into the air in any situation that you feel unsafe or you’re unsure about. The device will then give a video-live-stream awareness to a security company, police or ambulance. It should be a super effective security and communication device as it transmits “SOS” data in the forms of pictures, sounds and even the position-coordinates of where you are.

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Watch carefully in the video below how it’s done.

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Those security-conscious users can make use of the additional security feature to protect their precious contents stored on the Freecom drive. The user just needs to swipe the RFID keycard over the reader for either locking and unlocking the hard drive.

The Freecom Hard Drive secure comes with two keycards, so you can have one stored away safely, use it in the case the first is lost. Using keycards on the hard drive also eliminates the need to remember passwords and the AES encryption is reliable enough to protect your data; even when the drive is stolen, unauthorized users will not be able to access the data on it.

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The spy cap should be the best gadget to be used to spy on others without easily arousing any suspicion. This spy cap comes included with a 512MB SD card which stores your recorded footage. The spy cap has a hidden pin hole camera which captures exactly what you’re looking at and sends wirelessly it down to an MP4 player that comes with it for recording. The MP4 player shall be clipped on your belt, but be sure to hide it under your shirt.

The pin hole camera of the spy cap needs no external power as it’s connected directly to the MP4 player. This spy cap is suggested to have many uses including using it as a surveillance gadget to monitor those in your surrounding. You can get the spy cap on Amazon, which carries a price tag of $366.

Buy online, $366, Amazon

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This USB flash drive has 8GB of storage capacity which is sufficient to store up to 160 hours of audio when it’s used as a voice recorder. The little gadget is handy to be used in a meeting or in a lengthy seminar so you can record and take your sweet time to playback and listen to it when you’re in the mood.

The USB voice recorder flash drive is equipped with a built-in rechargeable battery that lasts up to 4 hours on every single charge. It also allows you to send files to your email to free up some space. The device has an on/off switch, just turn it on to start recording for you.

The 8GB model costs $99.95 which sounds pretty expensive to most people. A 2GB model is also available which costs only about half the price of the 8GB.

Buy online, Brickhousesecurity, $99.95

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The SpyCobra works differently from other USB spy key, it doesn’t need to be left occupying one of your computer’s USB ports. This is ideal for avoiding arousing suspicion. Once Spy Cobra is hooked up to the USB port of your computer, it’ll start installing a small piece of spying software within 15 seconds. You can then remove the Spy Cobra key from the USB port when it’s done.

The spying software on the computer will then start logging keys, recording websites visited and taking screenshots at regular intervals. Plug in the Spy Cobra later, will upload the collected information onto Spy Cobra, which you can then take away for examination.

It is useful for parents who wanna trace their kids on how they use the computer for. Whether the little ones have used the computer to surf some unsuitable online material. Or you can use it to trace what your colleagues have done on a shared computer.

Buy online, Menkind, £70 (About $110)

Many Internet routers are exposed to security risks of getting hacked. The most common hack could be using a software robot to keep on generating login and password pairs and attempting to break into the routers. Since router’s web administrative console does not support captcha, there is no way for routers to stop the attempts of breaking in right away as it is not able to identify whether it’s a human or a machine-generated attempt.

D-Link has now announced that Captcha will be released in a firmware update for a number of their routers, as an added-security feature that is able to prevent software-generated attempts to overtake your computer network.

The new firmware on the D-Link routers will prevent access to the common router settings pages and once your router has been updated with the latest firmware, you should see the new captchas in place. The D-Link routers that will get the firmware update are DIR-615, DIR-625, DIR-628, DIR-655, DIR-825, DIR-855, DIR-685 and DGL-4500.

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Gemalto has unveiled their new YuuWaa USB flash drives, which come with software for the protection and encryption of the data stored on them. Besides, the drives come included with service to let the users securely store or backup a copy of their data to remote server online.

The YuuWaa USB drives are available in two models, which are the YuuWaa Go that features 4Gb flash storage and 8GB storage, and the YuuWaa Plus that has 8GB flash storage and 16GB online space. The Go model asks for a price of $19.99 Euros, whereas the Plus carries a price tag of $29.99 Euros.

The USB drive offers a simple drag and drop interface making adding files to drive easy. Files too large to be attached via email can be uploaded to the online SSL-secured online storage, and let authorized users download them for viewing.

Buy online, Gemalto

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USB flash drives need more effort on the security for the data stored on them. As USB flash drives have storage capacity as big as 64GB, many users will use flash drives as their primary storage to store their important data and bring along anywhere they go.

The portability of USB flash drives will normally be an issue, which leads to users to forget or misplace their drives, and eventually leads to important data fall into the hands of their rivals. This may jeopardize your career or any business opportunity.

Ennova Direct Corporation (DBA ION Technologies) has introduced a new USB flash drive that comes with a built-in OLED display. This little OLED display on the flash drive is meant for additional security, where it has a built-in biometric fingerprint scanner that needs users to authenticate via it before being able to access the data on the drive.

The user needs to swipe the finger across the sensor, and the OLED screen will change color depending on if it was successful or not. The OLED display of this flash drive also provides an interactive interface which allows the users to select files and functions from the drive itself.

Another plus is this USB flash drive features a retractable USB connector, where there is an integrated cover, when closed protects the USB connector and the biometric fingerprint scanner at the same time.

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The Axxana Phoenix System is specially designed for a such a worst-case-scenario. It is an indestructible Black Box solid-state disk array and the box can withstand shocks up to 40 G’s and 5,000 pounds of pressure. And it also can stand the burn of fire with a temperature of 2,000 degrees (F) for 1 hour, or 450 F for up to 6 hours, and even submerged underwater for up to 30 feet. Some more it’s safe from terrors.

I’m not sure who will work or live in such a worst environment that would likely to have your data exposed to all these life-threatening disasters. Note: This Axxana Phoenix black box is also equipped with WiFi and 3G connectivity which allows the users to remotely access the data.

In the case which you may need to leave your data to live in disastrous area, while you live in safer area then you will need this serious protection for the precious data. The price is not known yet. But I think it should be pretty expensive. Those who need such a serious protection shouldn’t care too much about the price.

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Fujitsu has realized the importance of extra security for USB flash drives by having developed their first secure USB flash drive prototype (pictured above). The secure USB flash drive contains a processor and battery, it’ll erase all its data after a specified amount of time or once it’s detected that it’s plugged into an unregistered computer.

User can set how long the data to live on the USB flash drive, e.g 24 hours, and the data will be automatically deleted when the time is up or the drive is hooked up to unregistered computer.

Besides, Fujitsu also develops a second security technology, which uses file redirect to prevent files on a USB flash drive to be saved to another computer or uploaded to an unapproved server. The two security technologies from Fujitsu sound great, but I foresee there will be some intervention needed from the users, which may give little frustration to those with hectic lifestyle or the non-computer-literate.

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The poison pill system allows the owner to send the laptop into a state that stops working completely. And when the laptop is returned to the owner, there is a need for a pass phrase to get the laptop back to working state. For the thief, who does not have the pass phrase, they will not be able to get the laptop running, and they’ll be completely out of access to the data on the laptop.

The first few Asus P-series notebooks that are going to use the Intel anti-theft technology are the Asus P30 and P80 notebooks. These P-series notebooks will be an additionally secure platform for business users, especially those who’re so much concerned about their data or documents falling into the hands of their rivals. The P30 and P80 notebooks are available immediately with the Intel’s anti theft system installed.

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