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Back to school with the DormVault
Heading off to school can be all fun and games if you know who your roommates are gonna be. Think you can trust your new roomy? What about your roomy's creepy friends? Not to send you off to school a sniveling paranoid mess, but do you really know who you're living with?
To help put your paranoia to rest, ThinkGeek has developed a laptop safe to hold your precious new Airbook, with room for some cash, small electronics and more. It bolts onto the furniture in your dorm, so unless they're stealing the whole bed, no one is getting your valuables. The DormVault ($80) will hold a 17" laptop and more, and it bolts from the inside to your furniture with included mounting brackets, bolts and wingnuts; it also comes with a combination lock.
Cheaper than a Rottweiler, and less likely to get you kicked out of the dorm, the DormVault is an extra layer of protection. It ain't Fort Knox, but it might make roving hands move down the hall to a more accessable source. Now go buy you and your new roomy a pizza to start off the school year right.
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Via ThinkGeek
By Realist at 9:50 AM ON 08/17/09
That looks like plastic. If it is, I give your meth-head room mate 2.5 seconds to rip it open and rob you blind. If it IS metal, I give them 3 mins to rip it off whatever its bolted to...
By Quest at 9:59 AM ON 08/17/09
Why the dog?
Also, this looks very weak, nice concept though.
By coolnezz at 10:50 AM ON 08/17/09
get a heavy duty footlocker.
By Xanapus at 12:54 PM ON 08/17/09
I think something a little bit deeper would work because you want to keep more than just your laptop in there, like not only your ipod but also your PSP or DS and it's case filled with games and accessories. And your camcorder and/or digital camera. I can't think of any more but if I were going to college this year I would definitely need a bigger safe than that.
By Maj at 3:35 PM ON 08/17/09
Couldn't you just buy a safe at Office Despot?
By john at 3:46 PM ON 08/18/09
Yes. This is all true, but the important thing is knowing who your roommates are. Do some research and check the out on sites like Roomster.com http://www.roomster.com
By jdmimic at 5:54 PM ON 08/18/09
Problem with footlockers and safes is that people jut pick it up and walk out with it (unless you buy one of the really monster heavy ones, in which case good luck taking it to your dorm) then at their leisure smash it open, or failing that, angrily dump it in a lake or something. Sad but true. If you can carry it in, if it's not bolted down, it's gone.
By jashsh at 11:44 PM ON 08/18/09
Yes. This is all true, but the important thing is knowing who your roommates are. Do some research and check the out on sites like Roomster.com
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