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Human ear could be next biometric system
British scientists are researching whether otoacoustic emissions (OAE), the ear-generated sounds that emanate from within the spiral-shaped cochlea in the inner ear, can be used as a viable biometric technology like fingerprints and IRIS recognition.
- randallsquared 18y agoThis would be one of those slight improvements that really makes a difference: if your phone can unobtrusively check if it's next to your ear while ringing, it can just answer if you pick it up and hold it like a phone handset. It sounds like a trivial thing, but I really would prefer that my electronics did more of this figure-out-what-he-wants stuff.