They protect our homes, our cars, and our most valuable possessions--but did you ever wonder how keys work? Do you even know what the inside of a lock looks like? Check out the strangely mesmerizing ...

Explore the mechanics of the Pin Tumbler Lock, the most common type of lock. This video covers the following topics: - Parts of a Pin Tumbler Lock (00:42) - How to insert keys (01:22) - The concept of ...

Lock picking is defined by locksmiths as "the art of opening a lock without the key". There's many ways to accomplish this, but I'm specifically interested in using a lock pick set. Since locks vary ...

If you are smart, you wouldn’t hand your house key over to a stranger for a few minutes, right? But every time you use your key to unlock your door, you are probably broadcasting everything an ...

It’s been said there’s no such thing as an unpickable lock. That may be true – but this innovative lock assembly just bested one of the Internet’s most famous lock-pickers, who calls it “the weirdest ...