Where do you keep your personal junk, like a pebble you had picked up on the beach in your childhood. Like the dried-up rose pedals you had been given by your first beau. Or family heirloom jewelry which were supposed to cost millions but turned out to be glass-and-plastic fakes actually.

These useless memorabilia should be kept somewhere nobody else could poke them. If, for example, your kids or spouse found them, your sentimentalism would be laughed at forever. We have to avoid this kind of tragedy at all cost.

Alright, a safe. You need a secure safe.

PLUS Stationery's finger print safe. Very neat and sleek.	Finger print sensor is definitely of human-size.

These days, centuries old safe (and safe-cracking, too?) industry have gone digital from head to toe. No more, "Clockwise 32, anti-clockwise 56, again anti-clockwise 05, then ..." kind of dial safes are coming from factory door. Of course, these heavies with dials stay alive forever. But once dead, no replacement any more. Instead, sleek new safes with only a numerical pad or a biometric interface will take place. Or, for the traditionalists, maybe the one with plastic card slot instead of a key hole.

I guess you are quite familiar with numerical pad safe already. Yes, safe box in the hotel room. Mostly, with 4 digits PIN code. At worst, it will pop open after 9999 tries, if there is no input lock system kicked off after three failures.

Biometric safe, especially the one with finger print authentication, is a completely different beast. It's become so reliable and accurate that, presently, almost all the middle size safes in Japan have incorporated the system more or less.

Now, the fingerprint safe box has come down to the portable level. A stationery firm, PLUS Stationery Corp. of Tokyo released the smallish safe box. This portable safe box have a capacity of 10 fingerprint patterns. Either one person with 10 fingers registered, or 10 different people with one finger each registered. Simply slide your finger over the tiny sensor, once, twice, thrice ... now your finger has been registered.

A specimen of larger bretheren. King Industrial Co.'s KS-20FPE fire-proof finger print safe.

Battery operated, of course. 4 AA alkaline batteries. Low battery? You can change them with the new ones without opening the safe. Box size (inside): W306 x D213 x H142mm. Pretty small. If you were an active player on the black economy sector and trobled with the quantity of unaccountable paper money, this tiny safe could not be recommended.

On the other hand, if your memory power is in a declining phase, this safe will be very much helpful. Price: 31,290 yen (US$ 265).

 

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