New Motorola Vitamin Pills Could Be Edible Stomach-Acid-Powered Passwords

[Earth_First]

Taking a daily vitamin could do more than give you an extra kick of vitamin D or C in the morning. Soon, it could also boost your online security, becoming an authentication token you could never lose.

The FDA-approved tablet, made by Proteus Digital Health, contains a small chip that can be switched on an off by your stomach acid, creating an 18-bit ECG-like signal that would let you authenticate your identity just by touching your phone, your computer or your car.

Motorola has successfully completed a demo of the tablet authenticating a phone, but CEO Dennis Woodside said it wouldn't be shipping anytime soon.

Smart pills have previously been developed as a way to transmit health information straight from your body to your doctor, and to remind patients with chronic diseases to take their medication . And now maybe they can make not getting hacked a little more convenient, too.

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-05/motorola-debuts-vitamin-authentication-powered-stomach-acid

Could the NSA be hacking into your biometrics in the near future? Stay tuned...

[pinboy3niner]

1. NSA: "We just dropped in to see what condition your condition was in"

[dkf]

2. That's just great. Who knows what they can be planting around you should they wish to know all.

All your medicines and vitamins are now suspect.

[Earth_First]

3. Welcome to it!

If you have anxiety over it, "there's a pill for that."

[dkf]

6. Gives a new meaning to "the blue pill or the red pill".

[pinboy3niner]

4. What you really have to watch out for...

...are the suppositories.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I hope they rush production.

My car refuses to talk to me untll I tell it who I am.......