Friday, 22 April 2016
Fingerprint readers and iris scanners are great for authenticating people in buildings and on mobile devices. The next big thing in biometrics might lie under our skin. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Saarland and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany are working on SkullConduct (PDF), an authentication system that uses a bone conduction speaker and mic on your head to identify you. Hooked up to a modified Google Glass, it works by playing a one-secong-long audio clip through its speaker and then captures the sound after it’s traveled through the user’s skull. It analyzes…
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