Biometrics
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Seattle-based visual designer Sam Matson has created a headset aimed at helping gamers learn to control "gamer rage." The Immersion headset monitors the user's heart rate and increases the difficulty of a game, the less calm they become.
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myris is a new iris-scanning identity authentication device that promises to improve online security for its users and eliminate the need to remember the myriad of different passwords required for our different digital accounts.
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Samsung's Galaxy S5 could be forthcoming in the next few months, and may feature an iris-scanning security feature, according to one of the company's executives. A new iteration of the Galaxy Gear is also expected.
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS recently paired its fitness monitoring shirt with a smart pedelec bike. The system allows performance data measured from the shirt to control the output of the bike's electric motor.
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A lot of people like to monitor their heart rate while exercising, plus they also like listening to music. Usually, doing both involves wearing at least a couple of devices. The new On audio headset, however, plays back music and gathers biometric data ... through the user's ear.
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Hackers have already found a workaround to the iPhone 5s' Touch ID system, allowing them to unlock the phone with a dummy fingerprint obtained from a real fingerprint. Claiming fingerprint biometrics were never secure in the first place, the hackers say it was a simple matter to get access.
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Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 5s, which looks like the iPhone 5, but adds an advanced 64-bit system-on-a-chip, a better camera, and the Touch ID fingerprint sensor.
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If someone says they want to steal your heart, be careful ... your computer files could be at risk. The Toronto-based biometrics company Bionym wants to replace old-fashioned passwords with Nymi: a bracelet that uses the wearer’s heartbeat in place of passwords.
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ScienceScientists have developed a system in which a scan of the blood vessels within a person's face could be used to verify their identity.
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The PayTouch system allows users to make purchases using their fingerprints in place of a debit or credit card.
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The AOptix Stratus system turns your iPhone 4 or 4S into a biometric identification device.
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PayTango is a fingerprint-based identification and payment system currently being piloted in three locations at Carnegie Mellon University.
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