Image credit – Bob Wilder/University at Buffalo
When it comes to biometric security features, we are seeing methods like fingerprint scanners, iris scanners, and facial recognition as some of the more common methods available today. However in the future it is possible that we could be using something else entirely, like maybe using the size of your heart.
Researchers over at the University of Buffalo (via Engadget) have come up with a new method of security in which it uses the size of your heart to determine who you are. This relies on the use of a low-level Doppler radar that will continuously scan your heart’s dimensions, meaning that as long as you’re sitting in front of your computer and in the right spot, you will be able to keep using it.
For example if you were to move away, your computer could lock itself and only unlock when it detects your heart again. This means that users don’t need to manually lock or unlock their computers when it could be as simple as walking away and coming back. It could also be used to authenticate people at the airport where it can apparently authenticate people from as far as 98 feet away.
At the moment the plan is to shrink down the technology so that it could potentially be installed into the corners of computer keyboards.
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