Foursquare Hack Unlocks Building's Front Door

12/13/10

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Scott Lachut

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Scott Lachut serves as PSFK's President of Research and Strategy, where he is tasked with delivering insights to world-class brands from a diverse set of industries that include retail, technology, media, and health and wellness. He studies emerging signals from popular and business culture to create frameworks for understanding change and its impacts.

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A pair of Brooklyn developers have rigged their front gate to open with a simple mobile check-in.

Developers Erin Sparling and Nicholas Hall have imbued mobile-social network, Foursquare, with an additional layer of utility by rigging their building's front door so that it opens when they check-in to their apartment's address. The duo accomplished the workaround with the help of Foursquare's local push notification service, Alpha 2.0 API, an industrial web-enabled relay device, some speaker wire and plenty of ingenuity. On New Year's Eve the hack will be opened to everyone, enabling party goers easy, digital access to the celebration upstairs, likely turning the affair into a must have check-in for any aspiring mayor.

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