Showing posts with label Yahoo. Show all posts
Unlock your Mobile phone with your EAR !!
Yahoo Labs presents Bodyprint, an authentication system, to unlock your smartphone!
"Bodyprint brings biometric authentication to commodity mobile devices using the capacitive touchscreen as a low-resolution, but large-area image sensor to reliably identify users based on their ears, fists, or grips when pressed against the touchscreen. "
http://www.christianholz.net/bodyprint.html
Beside your ears, you can use other body parts, fingers, fists, and palms by pressing them against the display.
See how it work on Youtube:
Bodyprint: Biometric Authentication on Smartphones using the Touchscreen as a Scanner
image source: http://www.christianholz.net/bodyprint.html