Nokia N900 does real-time face tracking for verification (video)
In a world where smartphone unlock patterns and PINs can be easily gleaned from display muck, and computer passwords can be deciphered from the telltale audible clicks of the keyboard, it's any wonder that research is funded for alternative identity verification schemes. One promising technology is face verification -- technology we've already seen implemented in webcams , laptops , and more recently, Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 . Where we haven't seen it broadly deployed is in the easy-to-lose smartphone, at least not with the level of sophistication achieved by the University of Manchester (UK)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, entry, facial, facialrecognition, laptops, manchester, philipa.tresadern, philiptresadern, research, smudge
Shocker: Touchscreen smudge may give away your Android password pattern
Fast food connoisseurs should pay special attention here -- according to a recent paper by the University of Pennsylvania, Android users are inadvertently leaving their nine-dot lock patterns in the open, courtesy of their fingers' oily smear on the screen.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: camera, lock pattern, lockpattern, mobilephone, orientation, password pattern, phone, result, shocker, smudge, smudge attack, study, touchscreen, universityofpennsylvania
My PS3 scratches discs?
Has this happened to anyone? I get a ring-like scratch around dvds I insert into the Ps3, sometimes more scratches sort of like Saturn's rings? Is this the first stage of the YLOD
Categories: PS2 Tags: dvds, games, gets-repaired, happened, like-the-air, saturn, smudge, smudge-if-its, Warranty, ylod