What if our heart beat replaced our passwords...
mis à jour le 11 June 2014 à 23:19Have you ever forgotten your password to your phone, computer, email, etc? That won't happen again with the Nymi, a wristband that uses your heartbeat as a password.
Subscriptions, payments, online bank accounts, access to computers and smartphones... to secure all of these hi-tech activities we need - of course - a password! Sometimes, it is so boring to type the same old password again and again to gain access to what we need, or, even worse when we forget it or write it down on a piece of paper and then lose it...
Yes, but soon, this boring problem could be fixed by the start-up Bionym, specialized in Biometrics that has created Nymi, a sleek wristband that could use our heartbeat as a password. The company has spent six years researching and developing the core technology that they have launched and that uses our unique electrocardiogram signals (ECG).
How does it work?
All you have to do is connect the wrist band to your Smartphone using Bluetooth LE, then place your finger on the topside sensor while your wrist is in contact with the bottom sensor. Those three elements connected together - The wrist band, our heart beat, and our device - will prove that we are who we claim to be without the need for a password. So we could take control of our favourite devices until our Nymi is taken off.
But that's not all! The wristband could do much more. Thanks to its built-in proximity sensor and gesture control system, it could also be used for unlocking our house or our car.
We have here a biometric identification system that could most likely protect our computer, car, apps and so on against hackers and all other kinds of impostors.
You can pre-order the Nymi right now, at a special price of USD80 for the first 25,000 orders. After this, the price will increase to USD100.
Lindsay POUI-DI
