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Lockly Flex Touch Bluetooth Deadbolt Lock with Biometric 3D Fingerprint

  • Your finger is the key!
  • You can also use your phone, or the physical key
  • Easy to install and easy to use
  • If the battery ever dies and locks you out, you can use a 9V battery to give it a little juice (or just use the physical key)
  • Compatible with the Wi-Fi Hub which will allow you to control the lock from anywhere in the world
  • Tom’s Guide gives it a 4/5
  • Does it come in Georgia Red: Nope, just Doorgia Silver
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I’ve used this space on previous occasions to express a certain level of dubiousness in terms of smart technology. And I don’t mean that I’m above it. It’s more of a tortilla chips situation. I never keep them in the house, not because I don’t like them, but because, if there’s a bag of them around, it doesn’t matter the size or if there’s anything to dip them in, I will eat them until they’re gone.

I’m already plenty addicted to my phone as it is, is my point. I don’t need more stuff to track.

And certainly, some smart-tech-related skepticism is in order. The tech industry goes through phases. Someone rolls out something cool, it gets buzz, and then everyone tries to integrate it into their product whether or not its integration makes any goddamn sense at all. Toothbrushes that connect to an app to track your brushing, anyone? (Which, by the way, who else is excited to get a screaming deal on a Philips Sonicare that somehow uselessly integrates generative AI in a few years, huh?)

And yet, let me tell you from experience: the minute you start feeling smug about your non-reliance on smart tech, you will eat an entire humble pie. Look at all these losers tapping their phones to the card machine, you think, before you take out your wallet and realize you left your card at the bar, and now you have no way of paying for the groceries the cashier just rang up. Same goes for a doorbell camera. It seems like an unnecessary indulgence until an Amazon box disappears off your stoop.

Then, there are smart locks like this. They’re sleek, yet not so sleek that they grab anyone’s attention. They have a key. But they also allow you to unlock your house from an app. Which means, in order to get locked out, you need to forget your key and your phone. And let’s be honest, you’re far less likely to forget your phone than your keys. Does this say something about our jumbled sense of priorities in “these times”? Maybe. But it might just be that your phone’s bigger.

Plus, with one of these, you can unlock the door for someone when you’re miles and miles away. Which is exactly the sort of function you rarely have use for, but then, the one time you do need to grant remote entry to your home in some sort of emergency situation makes the entire thing worth the price tag. Which is only $50, more than a hundred bucks cheaper than you’ll get this thing for at Home Depot.

My point is: I’m probably not going to buy thi as some sort of symbolic stance against technological encroachment. And then, in a month, I’m going to be locked out of my house calling emergency locksmiths rather than tapping a button.

Don’t be like me. Buy the lock.

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