Local police force is offering members of our village neighbourhood watch scheme smart water for £15 instead of £50.
Has anyone applied this to their bike? Easy enough? Where abouts did you put it? All over the bike or just the frame and forks?
if your bike gets nicked, how certain are you that you want it back?
Just spent 10 minutes on the smar****er website, and still dont know what it is. Am I being stupid or is that the worst website ever?
What is smar****er..?
If my bike gets nicked I want a shiny new one :o)
"No officer, I've never seen that bike in my life!"
Isn't it an X-Men Character?
It's easy enough to apply and worth doing for £15. I'd be tempted to do other stuff in the house rather than the computer. As I understand it, it's little radio frequency dots that reflect with a unique code when scanned. That code is associated with your address and then they can give the stuff back. High tech version of the old UV security pens really.
http://www.smar****er.com/Personal.aspx
I would want my bike back, lot of time, effort and money gone into building it.
Kinda like using a UV pen to put your postcode on a video recorder.
Probably just as effective.
Probably just as effective.
Meaning its a complete waste of time
Just spent 10 minutes on the smar****er website, and still dont know what it is. Am I being stupid or is that the worst website ever?What is smar****er..?
good question....i still have no idea
kinda pointless when they may need stolen goods as evidence, which will leave you without a bike..
its not microdots, or little RFID chips.
It's more like DNA.
It applies like nail varnish.
If you then imagine that that nail varnish has say 20 separate chemicals that may or may not be added to the product. That gives you a 20 string binary number to play with by adding or leaving out each component.
The varnish is also uv reactive to enable location on your property under a standard black light.
I think that plod scrape a sample off your recovered goods, run the scraping through the analyser and that gives the unique binary combination of chemicals that identifies your bottle.
(I made up the number 20 as I don't know, but it sounds a sensible number to give enough combinations).
oh...my local PCSO in South Leeds is giving them out for FREE!!
Got to love Yorkshire!
They were doing it for free on campus at Uni last year but i missed it :/ Seems like a good idea.
Why is it any more effective than, say, noting the serial number of your frame?
But what about the people that live in that london? Their smart water will be all chalky and rubbish!!! I feel for you cockerneys, I really do
