To limit access to a smartphone, users commonly set different passwords on their handsets, so as to prevent other people from looking into the sensitive information on their mobile phones. However, Kansas based startup, EyeVerify has introduced a new and even better way to restrict access to a smartphone that will make the traditional password typing approach look primitive.
This is because EyeVerify’s security software allows smartphone users to unlock their phones by simply looking into the camera lens of their handsets and moving their eyes to the side. This will enable security software to identify the user by matching his or her “eyeprints” (basically a pattern of veins that can be spotted on the white area of the eyes) with an already saved print on the smartphone.
Explaining the “eyeprint”, CEO and founder of EyeVerify, Toby Rush said, “there is another field of biometrics and that’s called vein technology. Your blood vessels are also incredibly unique and very specific to you and what were able to do is actually image the only visible blood vessels on your body, which happen to be in the whites of your eye.”
Therefore, EyeVerify claims that their security software is as accurate as an iris or fingerprint scan. Moreover, this software does not require any other type of hardware to run it and according to Rush it can also differentiate between a picture of person and a real person, making it really tough to ditch EyeVerify.
At the moment, researchers at Purdue University are working on EyeVerify to further improve it, after which Rush and company will look to release this software in the first half of 2013.
Source: BetaKit, TechnologyReview, PSFK
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