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Biometrics Turns Your Ear Into Your Password
- endtime 17y agoI wonder what the effect of earwax buildup is on this. Without actually knowing anything about OAE, I'd imagine earwax delta could cause greater change in OAE than switching between people with similar ears. This sounds cool, so hopefully someone can explain why I'm wrong.
- anigbrowl 17y agoYou're not wrong. I am less than enthused about this, since I enjoy above-average hearing (and have leveraged this professionally for the last decade as a sound tech). I already have to put up with enough noise pollution: this is about as attractive to me as laser-based iris scanning would be.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoAlso reported on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563786 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563786 which in turn points to a New Scientist article, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227035.200-our-ears-may-have-builtin-passwords.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227035.200-our-ears-... In that they say: There are a number of problems that must be dealt with, he says. In subjects that have been drinking alcohol, for example, emissions are deadened. And different drugs alter the amplitude of OAEs, as do ear infections or wax build-up. The grant application is here: http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/E015522/1 http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/E015522/1