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A key designed to clip together with other keys, in the manner of lego bricks. You'd never need a key ring again.
Connecting Coins
http://www.halfbake.../Connecting_20Coins
Integrate the two and your pockets will never jangle again. Unless you fill them will bells. [calum, Oct 04 2002]
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I like the idea of not having a keyring anymore, but would interlocking keys be difficult to use in a lock? |
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What if the key you needed was in the middle? Major nuisance. Are key-rings really that bad anyway? I like keyrings. Yes, I do. |
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You just snap your block of keys at the right point and use your keys. Keyrings are just surplus weight. |
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(Except for the ones that look like tiny etch-a-scetchs. Those are cool) |
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Wouldn't you need to perform 2 snaps? And how much does a ring weigh? A couple of g if it's just the ring and doesn't have a novelty shoe horn attached. |
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May be just a couple of g's to you, but scale it up to global proportions. That metal could go into making dialysis machines for orphans! |
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You're right, we shoudl all sell our homes so that the orphans have places to stay, and dialysis machines to fight over! |
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Keyrings are a little extra mass in your pocket, but at least they're secure. I wouldn't place much faith in a snap mechanism to keep my keys intact. Besides, if you add the hardware necessary to make them snap-able, wouldn't that add mass, too? The more keys you have, the more mass. On the other hand, one little keyring can secure many keys with the same amount of mass. |
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// dialysis machines //
Why have keys at all?? They're a waste of metal and resources. Make retinal scanners, the ulitimate "keyless entry"!! |
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Or kidney scanners to tie in with the dialysis machines. |
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You are aware, aren't you, that a retinal pattern doesn't begin to deteriorate for several hours after removal of the eye. I, for one, don't like the idea that a car thief will do serious damage to me in order to take my car (taking it to the extreme). |
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OK how about a swiss army knife style key ring where they pull out conveniently? |
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No key rings ?!!?!? Where do I attach my tiny digital camera, and my super-bright LED torch? Not to mention my portable mass spectrometer for analysing UFO wreckage. |
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