Protect your car against theft
Many new car models have an amazing new feature: a keyless start system. With this feature you can open your car without sticking the key in the lock or pressing a button. The car uses sensors to connect to the car key and open the door. Once you’re sitting down, you can start the car by pressing a button. This sounds ideal, but clever car thieves have found a way to abuse the feature.
Car keys
Car keys that have the keyless start system work via a wireless connection. This signal only works when you’re within about two meters of your car; otherwise, it won’t connect. Unfortunately, clever thieves have found a way to hack this signal and enhance it. They don’t need any complicated technology for this these days: the devices needed to hack the signal can simply be bought at the store and they’re not that expensive.
Extender
Thieves use a type of signal enhancer or extender, to enhance the connection between your key and the car. You’ll have to be close by for this, but far enough so you can’t open the car yourself. An example would be that your car keys lie somewhere in your home while the car is parked out front, or you’re in the office and your car is in the parking lot. The thieves use the extender to enhance the signal between your key and the car so that the doors will open when you’re not around.
Prevention
You can use a couple of handy tricks to block the signal. The cheapest and easiest way is to wrap your car keys in a piece of aluminium foil before you put them in your bag or pocket. This will disrupt the signal. You can also buy a special metal wallet that will block the signal. Another tip you can try is putting your keys in the freezer when you’re at home! The freezer will block the signal as well. You’ll just need to remember that you put them there… Still not feeling at ease about this? You can also ask the car dealer to block the keyless feature. That way, no one can use it.
5 More Things You Can Do With Aluminium:
Polishing silver
Coat a bucket or bowl with aluminium foil. Make sure the shiny side of the foil is visible. Put the silverware you want to polish into the bucket, fill it with 3.5 liters of boiling water and add 50 grams of washing soda or baking soda. Leave the silverware in the water for about 15 minutes. The layer that has covered your beautiful silverware is attracted to the foil, which makes it easier to clean the silver.
Scrub the barbecue
If you have ever been tasked with cleaning the grill of the barbecue, you will know it’s a horrible chore. It will be a million times easier if you use aluminium foil, though. Scrub the grill with a scrunched up ball of foil and you’ll see it’ll be clean in no time at all!
Baking
When you’ve put your heart and soul into baking a cake, you want it to come out of the oven looking absolutely perfect. Edges that have browned a little too much are not what you want! To prevent the edges of your cake from getting too brown, you can cover them with aluminium foil. This will make sure they won’t burn or brown as quickly!
Scarecrow
Gardening is one of our favourite hobbies; we love it when our plants thrive! We don’t want to be doing all of our hard work for nothing, though, so we want to keep those pesky birds away from our strawberry plants. Instead of making a hideous scarecrow, you can also use strips of this handy foil! Hang them in the plants or trees and the birds will stay away.
Ironing
To some people ironing is very relaxing, while others hate the chore. It doesn’t matter what you think of it, though; it’s a task that can’t be put off forever. But you can speed up the process! Place a sheet of aluminium foil underneath the cover of your ironing board. The foil will reflect the heat coming off of your iron, which speeds up the ironing.
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Of course, we can also make tin foil hats!
Is aluminium, or aloominum as the americans call it, the same as tin foil?
