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The tennis ball-sized device aims to replace passwords (and all their "case-sensitive, eight-character minimum, at least one number required" confusion and ineffectiveness) with something more reliable: your eyeball.
It uses iris authentication to protect your computer as well as many of the things you use it for, such as online banking, social networks or e-mail. Users just plug the Myris into their USB then stare for a few seconds into the mirrored lens on the bottom until it makes a positive ID. After that, your computer or accounts are immediately unlocked.
A fortress inside your eyeballs
Given that the world's most common password is "password," perhaps it's about time we retire the password. And the EyeLock Myris seems prepared to buy it a gold watch pair of golf pants.The tennis ball-sized device aims to replace passwords (and all their "case-sensitive, eight-character minimum, at least one number required" confusion and ineffectiveness) with something more reliable: your eyeball.
It uses iris authentication to protect your computer as well as many of the things you use it for, such as online banking, social networks or e-mail. Users just plug the Myris into their USB then stare for a few seconds into the mirrored lens on the bottom until it makes a positive ID. After that, your computer or accounts are immediately unlocked.
Eyeball-scanning authentication isn't new but bringing it to the masses in a slick-looking package built for home use? Well that was enough to earn the Myris a CES Editors' Choice Award.
When we swung by their booth Wednesday for a test run, a representative told us it has a false accept rate of just 1 in 2.25 trillion, making it the most accurate way to verify identification other than DNA. And unless you feel like swabbing a Q-tip every time you want to check e-mail, that's not much of an option.
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