{"id":10434,"date":"2013-09-18T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10434"},"modified":"2013-09-18T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T07:45:11","slug":"heartbeat-could-replace-passwords-fingerprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10434","title":{"rendered":"Heartbeat could replace passwords, fingerprints"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pulse\"<\/a>Passwords, pin numbers, and credit cards could soon be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

Soon, your heart and your body might be used to keep track of just about everything if new technology is able to unlock \u201cpulse passwords\u201d.<\/p>\n

Your heartbeat reveals more about you than your health, Bionym chief executive officer Karl Martin explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s actually unique characteristics that relate to the size of the heart, the position of the heart, and the physiology surrounding the heart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Our heartbeats are as unique to us as our fingerprints and now they are being used to replace passwords, key cards, and bank cards, CBS 2\u2032s Kristine Johnson reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like your personal pin number is your heartbeat,\u201d Mashable.com\u2019s Lance Ulanoff said.<\/p>\n

The technology could allow you to open a door without a key or have tech gadgets like smartphones and tablets unlock the second that you walk into a room. It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but experts say it is the wave of the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a way for us to interact with the world around us without having to constantly identify ourselves,\u201d Ulanoff explained.<\/p>\n

Bionym, a Canadian company, developed a wristband to recognize the pattern of an individual pulse. The wristband transmits information that allows the user to do things like withdrawing money without a bank card.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to remember anything. You don\u2019t have to do anything special,\u201d Ulanoff said.<\/p>\n

Bionym isn\u2019t the only company developing concepts that use the human body as a form of identification. Motorola is working on a temporary tattoo that contains a computer chip and an antenna.<\/p>\n

A pill that dissolves and turns the entire body into a transmitter is also in the works.<\/p>\n

Security experts say traditional passwords don\u2019t offer much protection from identity thieves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they\u2019re alpha numeric, and usually they are because they have to be easy to remember, they\u2019re also correspondingly easier to break into,\u201d security expert Rohit Sethi explained.<\/p>\n

The new technology could pose considerable roadblocks for hackers because heartbeats cannot be replicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not going to have a piece of paper in your pocket with your password. You\u2019re going to have it as part of your body so that is safer,\u201d Ulanoff said.<\/p>\n

Bionym\u2019s wristband is so in tune with its owner that if somebody did steal it, it would not work. The wristband costs about $100 and is expected to hit stores in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passwords, pin numbers, and credit cards could soon be a thing of the past. Soon, your heart and your body might be used to keep track of just about everything if new technology is able to unlock \u201cpulse passwords\u201d. Your heartbeat reveals more about you than your health, Bionym chief executive officer Karl Martin explained. … Continue reading “Heartbeat could replace passwords, fingerprints”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[782,1295],"tags":[6333,6330,6332,6102,6334,6329,6331],"class_list":["post-10434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-in-depth-coverage","tag-bionym","tag-credit-cards","tag-heartbeat","tag-passwords","tag-personal-pin-number","tag-pin-numbers","tag-pulse-passwords"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pulse.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}