Researchers seek brain wave access to bank accounts and homes

[Celebration]

http://www.physorg.com/news9034.html

Canadian researchers hope to soon be able to use brain waves to unlock doors and get access to bank accounts. Some companies are already offering iris recognition systems that many countries want to put into biometric passports. But Julie Thorpe, a researcher at Carleton University in Ottawa wants to take the idea much much further.

She says it is possible to do away with key cards, pin numbers and a litany of other security tools that allow people to retrieve bank money, access computer data or enter restricted buildings.

"A user would simply think their password," said Thorpe, who hopes to develop the first biometric security device to read your mind to authenticate users.

Her idea, yet to be proven viable for commercial application, assumes that brainwave signals, like fingerprints, vary slightly from person to person, even when they think alike.

[dmkinsey]

1. Yeah, but ya still have to remember your password,

Not Buck Rogers enough for me:)

[Spinzonner]

2. But it won't work if

:tinfoilhat:

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. Since men think about sex every 6 minutes,

I imagine the lines at the ATM's with view screens will become quite long.

[reality based]

4. Then there will be someone hanging around banks

with devices that intercept brain waves and steal account numbers and passwords.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Here's an artists conception.

[mainegreen]

6. Oh give me a break.

I suppose if you have a headache, or get in an accident, you can't use ATMs?
This is way to expensive and way to clunky to be valuable. Imagine the poor sucker with a metal plate in his head. The CIA might like this at their HQ, but otherwise?

File this away in the stupid drawer along with flying cars.