This little guy is all the willpower you need (Picture: kSafe)

If you lack any willpower or motivation, no problem, because for $79 (£53), this storage box will do the job for you. Think of it like a life coach in a jar.

kSafe is the smart jar that makes you work for your treats by staying locked until you hit the goals you’ve set yourself.

You simply place your guilty pleasure into the jar – cookies, Playstation remote, iPad etc. – and then use the smartphone app to set yourself an activity/location or time-related goal.

Once you achieve your goal, you get your reward.


If you set an activity goal, the kSafe will unlock once you’ve burned a certain number of calories, or have taken the required number of steps (to make things easier, the app works with fitness trackers such as FitBit).

Just tell your smartphone what you want to achieve and it will lock the jar until you hit your goal (Picture: kSafe)

With location goals, the mini-safe only unlocks when you check in at a particular location – like the gym or the library.



And with time goals, you can tell the kSafe to only open at certain times of the day, week, or month. Or, you can simply lock it for a short period of time. This is perfect for stopping yourself munching late at night or stopping hangry kids stuffing themselves with chocolate before dinner.

Whatever happens, you can’t override the system. So, if you don’t burn those calories, you don’t get to have your cake and eat it.

If kSafe sounds familiar, that’s because it’s from the guys behind Kitchen Safe, a clear container with a time-lock that can be set for anywhere between one minute and 10 days to stop you giving into temptation.

kSafe takes the same concept of delayed reward but adds the ability to set tasks that will get you closer to that which you crave.

Ooh, light up rim klaxon (Picture: kSafe)

With its button dial and 360 LED ring, you can also check progress as you go. Push the button and if 75 per cent of the ring lights up, you know you’re almost there.

The kSafe is currently raising funds on Kickstarter and is already well over its $50,000 goal (at $67,000) with 39 days to go.

For $79 (£53) you get a choice of three colours (white, black or clear). Delivery, which is offered worldwide, is set for October 2015.

Just in time to help with those 2016 New Year’s resolutions.

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