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Smart Gun Inspires Smart Mouse Authentification System
dcblogs writes Defense contractor Raytheon has received a patent for a mouse that has a biometric pressure grip. It believes the pressure grip, as a form of authentication, will be particularly hard to defeat because it works from a neurological pattern versus a physical pattern, such as a facial scan. "It's not just how much pressure you exert on the mouse itself, but it's also the x-y coordinates of your position," said Glenn Kaufman, a cybersecurity engineer. The approach was inspired by similar pressure grips used in smart guns.
It's a perfectly cromulentificated word.
Okay, so it's a computer mouse that can *detect* a particular grip.
I was really wondering how researchers were able to get laboratory mice to grip guns. And why.