"Ear Printing" - Using Earbuds To Verify Your Identity

NEC Can Verify Your Identity Using Sound-Capturing Earbuds

Biometric authentication goes way beyond your fingerprint.

Billy Steele | March 8, 2016

Sure, you could use your fingerprint to unlock your phone, but NEC developed a way to verify your identity with your ears. The corporation announced technology this week that used the way in which sound resonates in the ear canal to identify a person. Ear shape is also unique to each of us, so NEC created a way for microphone-equipped earbuds to measure the acoustics after sending out a sound. What's more, the company says the technology works with 99 percent accuracy and only takes about a second to take its measurements.

Source: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/03/nec-creates-earbuds-that-can-verify-your-identity/

<more at http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/08/nec-earbud-identity-tech/; related links: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/03/nec-creates-earbuds-that-can-verify-your-identity/ (NEC Creates Earbuds That Can Verify Your Identity. March 8, 2016) and http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/137016-nec-s-earbuds-will-identify-you-by-resonating-sound-in-your-ear-canal (NEC's earbuds will identify you by resonating sound in your ear canal. March 11, 2016)>