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Lockface USB drive uses your face as the password
Do you have trouble remembering passwords? Well, there's one thing you'll never be able to forget: your own face. The Lockface USB drive uses facial recognition to ensure that you and only you have access to your most precious files.
To set it up, you simply take several photos of your face. Then, when you sit down in front of your webcam, it'll be able to confirm that it's you with 98% accuracy. There's a password failsafe, but that's how you got into trouble in the first place. Just use your face.
Crunchgear via Gizmodo
By Horus at 3:36 PM ON 12/16/09
But, what if have loss my face, can I use a picture of it instead?
By TheUnchosenOne at 5:10 PM ON 12/16/09
Looks more like a bottle opener.
By Lukew at 6:16 PM ON 12/16/09
as terrible as Horus' grammar is. He has a point. This system might be hacked by a picture. Of course I learned that on Burn Notice so who knows how accurate it is.
By Brass Orchid at 1:56 AM ON 12/17/09
A picture?! MacGyver would have used a scultpure made of cold cuts. Michael Weston needs to study more.
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