Carbon fiber door boasts biometric scanner, $15,000 sticker
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 6th 2008 7:36PM
posted Dec 6th 2008 7:36PM
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2001's Moon monolith?
Why?
You mean you DON'T have fifteen grand in your door fund? I guess times are getting tough...
If people spend $15,000 on a flat-screen TV, they'd buy the door.
I'd buy it, I think it's the coolest door I've ever seen!
security is a big concern in countries without effective law enforcement. i'm sure this thing pays for itself, compared to hiring an armed guard. next time you complain about paying your taxes, remember that.
$15K sounds kinda ridiculous. although one of the doors at the restaurant i work at cost $4K. and that is just a stupid normal door. not even one of those swingy two way doors. just a door. the swingy one costs more according to the owner/my boss. so $15K is actually not too outrageous.
either that or my boss got absolutely boned at the door store.
maybe the door sales girl put out?
Just smash through the glass next to it.
And steal the door while you're there.
Alright, I'll take what's in the safe ;)
This will go PERFECTLY with my basement crack lab !
Wheres the peephole??
Kool-Aid Man needs no door.
What's the point of having a biometric scanner equipped carbon fiber door if you attach it to a glass wall? Hmm, how could I circumvent these impossibly secure conditions?
Maybe it's sheets of quartz.
I don't think there's anything sensible about a $15,000 carbon fiber door, so it makes perfect sense to put it in a glass wall.
People that Live in Glass Hosues...
... should learn to spell, before they catch a clod.
Well, if I spent $15,000 on a door, I wouldn't want someone damaging it breaking into my house...
It's Choate, not Chaote.
foo.
They are using it in medicals in here. www.iamlittle.net
"This first ever interior house door tested by Top Gear."
Perfect device for Door-ks... nuk nuk nuk!
Carbon fiber is sooo '90s! Give us the carbon nanotube door!
well its only a matter of time until we have sliding doors and a space station that can destroy a small plant ;D
Pardon me while I go get my shoes on... for I will be running out to get one of these immediately!
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I can't see your lips over teh interwebs.
Actually a thick block of steel works a lot better... and it would for my house to, well if i lived in L.A
Wow I gotta have one no wait I forgot I don't have 15k to blow on yet another impossible to own gadget.
iEye, I don't care what they say, I thought it was funny. The best comedy is often the most misunderstood.
$15,000 = 50 X 4GB 1st Gen iPhones...
Or 15,000 tracks from itune store.
how many football fields would 50 iphones stretch if they were lined up? and how many libraries of congress could they store?
I don't like you:
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I do not understand the ranking scheme in this series of replies... what?
I shall gaze upon this from my solid-gold chair as I eat Giant Panda steak off of diamond plates and sip liquified platinum out of stem wear made of moon rocks.
and after dinner, you will go to your solid gold bathroom, and use your sapphire and ruby-encrusted platinum toilet and then proceed to take a bath in your solid emerald bathtub .
You should have a door made of antimatter. I for one wouldn't go near it. Keep the particles in place with a Penning trap.
At 62.5 trillion dollars per milligram, you may need to wait until the financial markets clear up before considering a purchase. You may also want to get a door in the mean time, considering it would take 2 million years to produce.
Slycooper, sapphire and ruby toilet? Do you live in a trailer park, too? My indentured servants hold out their hands and then wipe me with Picassos.
if you're having trouble figuring out how to spend all your money, i'm sure i could help.
lol nice
Why is it coated in carbon fibre? CF is strong but it's not hard, someone could tear it all off with an axe or something.
No, what you want is a giant chrome door....with diamonds in. Now thats class.
Good accoustic properties (I'm curious about that)? Anyway, since it's just wrapped or coated it's probably more a question of marketing than anything else. Also at 100lbs the core is probably wood and/or metal covered. Since it's an indoor door, I guess it's not so important to be, hum, axe proof. ;)
A door of that width would need to be incredibly light to be framed into a glass wall. Otherwise it would rip out at the top due to the torque. I would imagine they ran the costs for a steel door and said f it once they got the required bracing back from the engineer.
$15K and no peephole?
Will this fiber help my bowels?
Aww... How sweet. I don't like you either.
Ok to put things into perspective...3 things, first of all y the hell would u need a bloody THX certified door in ur room when the room is made of glass...second y would u need a biometric wateva if its an inside door, i mean a safe would be a good alternative to keeping highly classified docs, unless u live in a prison with high tag inmates for family.....and finally carbon fiber means light yet strong but it doesnt mean bullet proof!!
oh then again ppl with the current crisis have no idea in wat to to invest their money in...mehh...
This isn't the THX certified one.