From Metro UK
Forgotten your password? Don’t worry, soon you’ll be using passthoughts
... Traditional passwords are troublesome. Most of us are too lazy to think up anything remotely difficult for online criminals to decipher and we gather so many of them these days that a photographic memory is needed. We tend to either make every password for all our logins the same (extremely naïve) or write them all down (extremely tedious and just as naïve).The solution from Professor John Chuang and his team at the University of California, Berkeley comes in the shape of ‘passthoughts’.
Not only do you not need to type in any passwords, but you don’t make any kind of physical contact at all, beyond wearing a headset which measures brainwave impulses.
That’s the easy bit. The team at Berkeley’s School of Information simply used an off-the-shelf device called the NeuroSky MindWave, which can be bought on Amazon for less than £70....