Nymi band

[TopWargamer]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4688162/bionym-nymi-could-replace-all-your-passwords

 

 

 

Fingerprint readers. Face Unlock. Retinal scanners. They're all no better than your average password, at least the way Dr. Karl Martin sees it. "Your face, your iris — they're all physical features that can be stolen, that you leave everywhere."

 

Luckily, Dr. Martin has a better idea. He's planning to use it to open everything from our phones to our front doors, and even move the car seat exactly how we want it. All we have to do is wear a bracelet.

 

Martin's startup, Bionym, is going public with its first device, the Nymi, after research and development that goes back more than 10 years. It centers on a person's electrocardiogram, a measure not of your heart rate but of the electrical activity generated by your heart. A person's ECG is dependent on the size, position, and physiology of their heart, and it's completely unique to every person. It's as unique to you as your fingerprint, and unlike your fingerprint you're not leaving your ECG on glasses or windows or cell phones everywhere you go. That ECG is what Bionym uses to identify you as you.

 

 

It's amazing to see how technology can do this now. Quite a neat little thing they're gonna be selling. Would you pick one up? 

[Kuzma]

Retina scanners or gtfo

[sabot]

That would be a shame if it is stolen.

[JORDANonPC]

Storing information like passwords on a physical object that can be stolen are stupid in my opinion It's like leaving sticky note on your monitor with all your passwords so you don't forget it renders the idea of a password useless. leave the password in your head where it is safest.

[ciprian97pop]

That would be a shame if it is stolen.

or hacked when you queue, by someone using some sort of nfc bracelet that needs to touch yours for one sec.

One sec and everything belongs to him

Edited September 4, 2013 by ciprian97pop

[nightlitezzz]

But I like my fingers.

[CoolBeans]

What if someone stole this bracelet though, a password will always be better than things like this

[Beskamir]

This would be a pretty nice feature for a smart watch.

 

or hacked when you queue, by someone using some sort of nfc bracelet that needs to touch yours for one sec.

One sec and everything is his

That sounds like something completely out of Watch Dogs. (which is based on current technologies:D)

[ciprian97pop]

This would be a pretty nice feature for a smart watch.

 

That sounds like something completely out of Watch Dogs. (which is based on current technologies:D)

If you can have this technology, then a hacker can have this technology 

[mgsstar]

This is pretty neat but people will soon be able to find out how to intercept the signal and they could steal the information off the devices.

[carolkarine]

Btw it isn't storing passwords. Your ecg is the password.

[criso8]

It's cool. Eventually everyone will have a chip implanted in them. This is just getting closer to this future.

[ChrisxIxCross]

Its useless to anyone who steals it. It will essentially work upon the same principle as a lock & key. The bracelet will only work if it DETECTS your ecg, it doesnt store it.

[JakeGFX]

I'll stick to storing my passwords in my mind till someone manage to tap my brain.

[CyberneticTitan]

Fingerprint or retina scanners are better imo.

[Matrix19]

http://www.getnymi.com

Video explainging all the pictures below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUO7Qnmc8vE

[whatthe_fuzz]

666 #y0l0 #illuminati

No thanks. I don't want the NSA to track me via my vitals

[Stomplar]

666 #y0l0 #illuminati

No thanks. I don't want the NSA to track me via my vitals

I totally agree with that. its tragic that all this cool tech falls into the hands of evil doers. 

[qwertywarrior]

approved by the NSA

[MrImnotMLG]

That would be a shame if it is stolen.

It can tell that its not you when it doesn't have the same biometric readings.

[Ethnod]

That would be a shame if it is stolen.

 

It does not seem to store any data but simply read someone ECG and then broadcast that to devices. So if you had one of these things on and I took your and placed it on me the ECG reading would be mine so the password being broadcast would be different. 

 

My issue is that unless that communication is encrypted (and even then...) then it can be captured and reproduced by a 3rd party

[Ultimate_PIMP]

It's like a fingerprint scanner for your heartbeat...

 

It doesnt store passwords or anything. It just Knows its you by your personal heartbeat

[Vitalius]

Just a thought to everyone who posted about this. 

I tried to pre-order the Nymi from their website. If you click Pre-Order, you will see that they directly ask for your Card number, CVC, and the expiration date. Which by itself is weird. I did it anyway, being stupid and such.

Then, a few days later, my Debit Card was blocked because someone tried to buy something from an electronics store in Toronto Canada. The same place this company is based, so my card is blocked due to fraud as I live in Texas and have never been to Canada or ordered anything from there over the phone. Which is apparently how they tried to order it, whatever it is. 

I am just saying, 1+1=2. 

I am not sure if it is Nymi in general, or if that website, www.getnymi.com is bogus, but something is not right here. I want to emphasize that the only other places I buy things with my Debit Card on the internet is from Amazon, Newegg, and through Paypal. And my computer is clean. 

YMMV