Fingerprint readers. Face Unlock. Retinal scanners. They're all no better than your average password, at least the way Dr. Karl Martin sees it. "Your face, your iris — they're all physical features that can be stolen, that you leave everywhere."
Luckily, Dr. Martin has a better idea. He's planning to use it to open everything from our phones to our front doors, and even move the car seat exactly how we want it. All we have to do is wear a bracelet.
Martin's startup, Bionym, is going public with its first device, the Nymi, after research and development that goes back more than 10 years. It centers on a person's electrocardiogram, a measure not of your heart rate but of the electrical activity generated by your heart. A person's ECG...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4688162/bionym-nymi-could-replace-all-your-passwords
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