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<\/p>\nThe\u00a0spate of bear encounters\u00a0in Japan has certainly been surprising for many reasons, but one thing that caught my attention especially is that they seem pretty good at using automatic doors. <\/p>\n
\u25bc Just struts in like it\u2019s no big deal<\/p>\n
\u25bc This one struggled a bit, but it\u2019s young; it\u2019ll learn.<\/p>\n
This is bad news for people, however. Bear encounters are bad enough in the outdoors, but being trapped in a confined space with one is a whole other level of terror.\u00a0Given the number of incidents involving bears going through automatic doors, some businesses and facilities have set them to manual instead.\u00a0While inconvenient for some, this poses a particular accessibility problem for disabled people.<\/p>\n
Speaking of whom, Fulltech and Mirairo are two companies that have been developing\u00a0Mirairo Door. This automatic door can communicate with smartphones via Bluetooth and was originally intended for use by people with varying levels of mobility so they could adjust the speed at which the door closes to suit their needs on their phones.<\/p>\n
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It just so happens that these doors are also really good at keeping bears and other wildlife out of buildings.\u00a0Mirairo Door can also be set so that only people with smartphones can access the door\u2019s automatic feature, and since bears are currently unable to purchase such devices, they cannot go through.<\/p>\n
One drawback is that you need to install the Mirairo Door app on your phone for it to work, but once you do, it works all on its own when near a compatible door. But even without the app, the doors have touch switches and are still relatively easy to open. I suppose a bear could hit the touch switch too, but it\u2019s still a much bigger hurdle than conventional automatic doors.<\/p>\n
It does offer a solution for businesses and other organizations who want to keep their doors closed to dangerous animals but also don\u2019t want to hinder other people from coming inside. For now, at least\u2026<\/p>\n
Given the rate at which the bears have managed to\u00a0disrupt our infrastructure, I give them about three years before they acquire quantum computing technology that can decrypt the elliptic-curve discrete logarithmic problem and override the doors\u2019 controls. Hopefully, by that time, better bear-proof encryption for wireless devices will have been developed.<\/p>\n
Source, images:\u00a0PR Times<\/p>\n
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