Halifax testing ECG wearable for identity authentication
Sunday, March 15, 2015 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
We have to think a lot about creating, losing, restoring, renaming and managing our passwords. Users and vendors are interested in finding better ways to deliver protection that will not be difficult to use. Technologists have been proposing fingerprint and iris recognition capabilities as next steps in the digital age but there is something else in the mix. The heart. What if you could seamlessly unlock devices using electrical signals emitted by the heart? The Nymi wristband was engineered to do just that.