Brainwave passwords are reportedly not too far off.
While everyone is used to typing in passwords for access to email accounts and other online services, a group of scientists from the University of California in Berkeley have developed a way to identify people by their brainwave activity.
Using a Mindset Brainwave sensor from Neurosky, study subjects were asked to think of their favorite color or sing a song so that their brainwaves could be measured.
They then set up an authentication system to see if they could differentiate between people’s brainwaves to use as “pass-thoughts,” and it worked.
Professor John Chuang who led the study said: "We don't see this as a replacement to traditional passwords in scenarios where we sit down in front of a computer… but there are other scenarios that involve wearable computers, for example, Google Glass. In those scenarios, something that goes beyond typing in our password might become much more useful."
There is a headband created by Interaxon that can control game applications and computing by measuring brainwave activity in real time.
It sends the data on the users brain waves through a Bluetooth device and users can watch the changes in their brainwaves as they do challenging focus games.
