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New car seat can recognise driver's
bottom-print
Thursday December 29, 2011 07:47:15 PM,
IANS
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London:
Scientists have designed a car seat which can recognise the
'bottom-print' or the way people sit to identify the driver.
Scientists at the Tokyo's Advanced Institute of Industrial
Technology have designed the chair which measures 360 pressure
points to build a 3D profile of how a person sits.
The discovery could replace car keys and the researchers say it
could even be used in offices instead of computer passwords.
Scientists say that the system is 98 percent accurate.
It's a simple matter of fitting pressure sensors inside a normal
car seat - so it could be in production cars as early as 2014,
reports the Daily Mail.
The team says that the bottom-scan is actually less intrusive than
other forms of biometric scans, such as the face recognition
currently in use by Britain passport control.
Most biometric systems require users to stand still to be scanned
- whereas sitting is a natural instinct.
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