Motorola recently announced two new medical technologies. Each of them could make passwords a thing of the past.
Motorola announced two new technologies that could make phone passwords a thing of the past. With them identity could be verified by recognizing a tattoo or detecting a swallowed pill.
Fear not, for the tattoo there’s no time under the needle required.
The flexible electronic circuits are applied to the skin like a rubber stamp. They were previously developed for use in medical applications and have also been experimented with by Nokia.
The pill being considered was also created for medical purposes. The battery in the pill’s microchip is powered by stomach acid, and it emits an EKG type signal that can be picked up by outside the body devices.
Although it reportedly works just fine, Motorola’s chief executive said neither it nor the tattoo would likely be hitting the shelves soon.
It’s always hard to approximate when “soon” is where technology is concerned. Consider how long it’s been since first rumblings of a thing called a smartphone were even on the radar.
The idea behind the smartphone was first officially filed in 1972 and patented in 1974.
