Mobile Phone Security Boosted By Gait Sensor
It sounds like a weird idea, but the scientists behind the latest security device for mobile phone claim it is effective and cheap. Finland’s Technical Research Centre has unveiled a gait sensor that checks the peculiarities of motion as the mobile phone is carried and only allows you to call if you match a preset type of walk.
The researchers behind the device claim 90% effectiveness, putting it on a par with voice-regnition, but behind fingerprint technology. However, at only 1 Euro per unit it is much cheaper.
If the user’s gait fails to match the prerecorded settings then the phone will lock and only allow calls after a passcode is entered.
Now the only problem is what if you developed a limp?
Add comment October 15th, 2005