Take a pill or get a tattoo for security?

With the 'in the pocket, you can't see it' phone that we talked about yesterday there is something else... Motorola has come up with an interesting solution to security.

It seems more like a lost scene from the Matrix than phone security. I don't know how I feel about having a 'marker' on or in my body. Regardless check out the video in which Regina Dugan, the former DARPA head that now leads advanced research for Motorola discusses the technology.



The company is looking at improving on the password by using electronic tattoos, pills and other forms of authentication. This technology which is a bit further out, aims to remove the need for passwords and replace them simply with a phone being close to a user’s body, was one of the suggestions Dennis Woodside, Motorola’s chief executive, California's D11 conference.

The tattoos have been developed by Massachusetts-based engineering firm MC10, and contain flexible electronic circuits that are attached to the wearer's skin using a rubber stamp.




Morpheus: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony....