A recent research that was just done by a particular team of different Indian Americans claims that our bodies can later on be used as a scanner just like either a credit card or even a smartphone. In the future, human beings will allegedly be able to use their fingertips in order to be able to send communication with other people.
Communications Research: New future touch technology
According to IndicaNews, the team states that it is possible to essentially use human beings' bodies to be the actual like between either smartphones or cars which will make it possible for people to transmit information with a simple touch of a surface. The prototype has been developed by particular Purdue University engineers and is said to be in its earlier stages, according to the story by ScienceDaily.
When wearing the particular prototype watch, users' bodies will be able to send information like photos or passwords when simply touching a particular sensor located on the person's laptop, according to researchers. According to Shreyas Sen, a particular Purdue associate professor of the electrical and engineering division, it is already common to unlock certain devices with fingertips but the new technology would not rely on biometrics anymore but rather digital signals.
Secure logins through human touch
The statement cues painting a picture of logging into a particular app on someone's own phone with just a touch. Whatever would be touched would then become even more powerful due to digital information being used. The statements were added by Sen to the study published by the Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction which is a journal by the known Association for Computing Machinery.
Shovan Maity then led the study as a particular PhD student over in Sen's lab. The technology works by first establishing an "internet" within the human body that includes smartphones, pacemakers, smartwatches, insulin pumps and also other wearable or other implantable devices that can be used in order to send information.
Bluetooth hackers
The particular devices typically communicate via Bluetooth signals that actually tend in order to radiate out from the body. A particular hacker could be able to intercept the given signals from about 9 meters, according to Sen.
Sen's new technology instead tries to keep the signals confined directly within the body through use of a so-called "Electro-Quasiastic range" that is said to be much lower on the known electromagnetic spectrum compared to the typical Bluetooth communication. This particular mechanism is now what enables information transfer by simply only touching its surface.
Hovering touch technology
Even through the use of the fingers hovering a centimeter above the surface, the new information would not be able to transfer through the technology even without physical touch. Through this, hackers will be prevented from stealing certain private information like credit card credentials through intercepting the given signals, according to authors.
It was stated that certain credit card machines and apps like the known Apple Play uses a much more secure alternative to Bluetooth signals in order to receive certain payments by simply tapping a card or even scanning a phone. Sen's own technology would actually add the convenience of being able to make certain payments more secure with this technology according to the article.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
