Listed 16 December 2014 · College Park · Maryland · United States

GateKeeper GK-Chain.

A Maryland key fob that locked your computer when you walked away, and grew into a passwordless login product for hospitals and businesses.

Security and privacyHardware

Timeline

  1. On record

    University of Maryland's Mtech reported that CoolCAD Electronics, a UMD-based electronics design company in its incubator, had launched a 30-day Kickstarter campaign for the GateKeeper Chain.

    On record · Announced
    mtechumd.wordpress.com
  2. Listed on Stompstart

    “Lock and Roll”

  3. Listing page saved

    The Wayback Machine saved this listing page.

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  4. Site checked

    The product's site was live.

  5. On record

    The GateKeeper user manual v2.8 on dl.gkchain.com is published under the Untethered Labs, Inc. name, with software screenshots dated July 2016.

    On record · Announced
    dl.gkchain.com

As listed on Stompstart

Product photo of five metal key fob devices in orange, blue, green, black and silver.
The image uploaded with the original Stompstart listing on 16 December 2014.

Listed 16 December 2014 · page saved 4 April 2015 · Public

“Lock and Roll”

With the GateKeeper's auto-lock ability, computer privacy has become nothing but an afterthought. GK-Chain protects PCs and Macs in hospitals, workplaces, dorms, and many other places. Snooping friends have finally met their match. Many companies have partnered with us to integrate the GK-Chains into their security systems. CoolCAD Electronics, LLC is a CAD and custom electronics design firm that specializes in satisfying non-mainstream electronic design applications. Our expertise ranges from nanostructure and device modeling, design and analysis, to integrated circuit design and layout, and all the way to printed circuit board level electronics development. More specifically our thrust is concentrated on three areas, listed under services: 1) Semiconductor fabrication and characterization, 2) electronics design and prototyping, and 3) Circuit modeling and simulation.

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Hardware
Location
College Park · Maryland · United States
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In our words: The 2014 listing, submitted by CoolCAD Electronics, a College Park electronics design firm, described the GK-Chain as a Bluetooth fob that automatically locked PCs and Macs when its owner left, pitched at hospitals, workplaces and dorms. The page also set out CoolCAD's semiconductor and circuit design services.

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Sources

  1. ece.umd.edu
  2. mtechumd.wordpress.com
  3. dl.gkchain.com
  4. gkaccess.com
  5. gkaccess.com
  6. biometricupdate.com

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