Scientists developed a way to send secure passwords from a persons body. It relays from a fingerprint scanner through the body to unlock doors and other devices. It allows for a person to unlock a device without a password, using a person’s biological identity. It connects a phone to another device through a person. Using WIFI and cellular to transmit passwords isn’t secure over the air. This engineering inoovation creates a secure, hardware connectio through a human body. The only password you’d need is a fingerprint, which you don’t have to remember and you carry on you at all times. This project is the work of Merhdad Hessar, a doctorate student at the University of Washington. His inspiration was from his interest in Ubiquitous Computing. He wanted to see if it was possible to remove the need of passwords and to also make it more secure.
I found it interesting that this innovator looked into a method that was working (passwords) and thought of a way to make it better. This product doesn’t have much personal usage at the moment, but could be a huge product in high security facilities. You would have to be alive and it uses your body as the password to unlock doors. It could be an interesting step into a secure future
Is this basically what Apple has done with the iPhone? My phone unlocks with my fingerprint and I can use Apple pay with just my fingerprint as well. With the amount of passwords needed these days this innovation will be very helpful!
This innovation hits close to home, since I have a terrible time remembering different passwords. Great innovation!
I used to be able to remember most of my passwords but since school started, I think I have lost all control! If I was able to use my fingerprint as a password similar to my Iphone, it would help to keep my accounts secure and help me not to worry about remembering all the numbers and digits. Hopefully, this will become possible in the future.
This is really helpful. I use this feature on my iPhone. I know there is also a system that uses facial recognition on your phone. The only downside with this is that you can just show the camera a picture of the person to unlock the phone.
This innovation is really great because it helps to solve an annoying problem of remembering and forgetting passwords. Unfortunately for him, Apple has already invented something similar, and I’m sure other tech companies have this technology as well.