Bike riders face some common issues with the current bike lock solutions such as; losing keys, forgetting lock combination, sharing the lock, and thieves cutting the lock and stealing the bike. Digilock is a bike-lock with a built-in fingerprint reading technology, providing simple, easy, and more secure solutions to any bike commuter. The user can setup and charge the lock by connecting to a computer using a micro USB, adding multiple accounts for shared access, and setting the level of theft alert.

The Industrial Design area at Purdue has about 100 students in the program. They offer both an undergraduate and a graduate program in ID. The undergraduate degree is a professional program with intensive course work to prepare students for professional design positions. Purdue is unique in that it combines the professional degree with strong liberal arts education. This combination of liberal arts and professional design studies prepares students for strong leadership roles as industrial designers.