Unlock Your Smartphones Using Vein Authentication

The usual security lock for smartphones requires the owners to enter a passcode or a pattern to protect it from misuse. However, such options are easily bypassed. Japanese mobile network Softbank Mobile, has come up with a better solution to protect your smartphones, using vein authentication.

Softbank together with Universal Robot Co. Ltd has figured a way to authenticate the vein without the need of a vein sensor. All you need is your smartphone’s camera, your veins and an app.

With the combination of a special software and and the smartphone’s built-in camera, veins can be detected in visible light, giving it the ability to detect the vein pattern. The app can also check the palm pattern.

Each person’s hand veins has a unique pattern that can’t be easily copied. This added feature really improves the phone’s security.

Softbank is said to introduce this app at the last quarter of 2012. It is not certain if this app is exclusive to Softbank phones or available to all app stores.

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