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Stories · 3

  1. Future Cell Phone Knows You By Your Walk

    Entertainment · Toy · · posted by Zonk · from the i-want-my-gun-to-know-me-better dept. · 156 comments
    jangobongo writes "Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have come up with a unique way to secure your cell phone if it should get lost or stolen: 'Gait code'. Motion sensors in the phone would monitor the walking pattern (or gait) of whoever is in possession of the phone, and if the 'gait' doesn't match a pre-established biometric the phone would require a password to operate. The prototype cell phone correctly identified when it was being carried by someone other than its owner 98% of the time. The research team points out (powerpoint document) that this method could also work for PDAs, laptops, USB tokens, smart cards, wallets, suitcases, and guns."

  2. Future Cell Phone Knows You By Your Walk

    Entertainment · Toy · · posted by Zonk · from the i-want-my-gun-to-know-me-better dept. · 156 comments
    jangobongo writes "Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have come up with a unique way to secure your cell phone if it should get lost or stolen: 'Gait code'. Motion sensors in the phone would monitor the walking pattern (or gait) of whoever is in possession of the phone, and if the 'gait' doesn't match a pre-established biometric the phone would require a password to operate. The prototype cell phone correctly identified when it was being carried by someone other than its owner 98% of the time. The research team points out (powerpoint document) that this method could also work for PDAs, laptops, USB tokens, smart cards, wallets, suitcases, and guns."

  3. GTK and GIMP get ported to Win32

    Gimp · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the is-this-good? dept. · 0 comments
    Partisan writes "This guy has ported GTK (at least some of it, I don't know much about GTK) and THE GIMP to Win32. This port does NOT require the install of Cygnus GNU32 or an X-Server. More information is kept here as well as an explanation of the whys and hows"