At the University of Buffalo, a team has developed a new way to login to your computer. Forget the finger prints and retina scans, this technology uses your heart. This mechanism takes the dimensions of your heart to identify you.
This system uses a low-level Doppler radar. It continuously monitors your heart even after login to ensure no one else is using your computer. They say this system is safe and even more effective than alternate passwords methods.
The lead author was Wenyao Xu, PhD. He said "The signal strength of the system's radar "is much less than Wi-Fi," and therefore does not pose any health threat, Xu said." The system only needs 8 seconds to recognize your heart the first time you use it, and after that it will always remember that specific heart.
Xu plans to input this system into the corners of computer keyboards. This system eventually might be used in smartphones and during airport identification screenings.
University at Buffalo. "New non-contact, remote biometric tool could be next advance in computer security." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 September 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170925133000.htm>. LINK
This is really interesting but I feel like that's an excessive amount of security and technology for a common computer and a common person.
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