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Motorola Developing Pill and Tattoo Authentication Methods
redletterdave writes "In trying to solve the 'mechanical mismatch' between humans and electronics — particularly wearables — special projects chief Regina Dugan unveiled two new projects currently in development at Google's Motorola Mobility centered on rethinking authentication methodology, including electronic tattoos and ingestible pills. Of the pill, which Dugan called her 'first superpower,' she described it as an 'inside-out potato battery' that when swallowed, the acids in one's stomach serve as the electrolyte to power an 18-bit ECG-like signal that essentially turns one's body into an authentication token. 'It means my arms are like wires and my hands are like alligator clips [so] when I touch my phone, my computer, my door, I'm authenticated,' Dugan said. 'This is not science fiction.'"
Didn't we have a problem with this in Europe last century?
Good news! It's a suppository!
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
Tattoo authentication...I just see Idiocracy.
You become a were-cyborg.
I poop information!
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
What kind of shitty future did I wake up in where 'unlocking your cellphone' is a "superpower"?
...Because I'm a potato!
Brings a new meaning to "Logging out"