The art of unlocking

Our mobile phone It is both a function and a medium. We store a large part of our daily tasks on it, from the most banal to vital aspects of our professional life. We store everything on it, from trivial conversations to sensitive material from both our private and professional lives. That is why advances in terminal protection are taking place day after day. Not only in the world of computing, but also in the world of computers. Apps with functions of data protection but also in the more precise aspect of access to our terminals.

A few days ago we were talking on this blog about the advances in relation to power Unlock our mobile using our voice. Well, in recent days there have been new proposals to keep our phones safe and protected from prying eyes. Unlocking mobile phones has become a science of study and almost an art. Four-digit codes, movement patterns, and the different types of codes are no longer useful. R&D departments They are moving towards all kinds of new proposals.

Of all the options studied and presented, perhaps the most bizarre is the one that we are presented with Amazon. So inclined to innovation in its decisions, this technological giant has registered a patent in which it claims to have developed a specific technology so that we can unlock our phone with our ear. Intended as an innovation for the next generation of Fire phones, Amazon could even use earpiece unlocking to control some of the phone's features, such as adjusting the volume depending on how far the phone is from our ear.

This video shows a demonstration of how this new technology works:

More striking, because it is fun, is the proposal of Intelligent Environment. This company, perhaps aware of the new uses in communication, has proposed what they say is perhaps one of the safest ways to protect our phone. Their proposal to access the content stored on our mobile is to do so through a emoji sequenceThis formula, which allows 480 more combinations than a 4-digit numerical password, is even considered an alternative for accessing issues that are much more relevant to us, such as a bank account.

Here's how it would work:

And now something more normal or, at least, more common for movie fans: the recognition of the human iris. This is the proposal that comes to us from Fujitsu. In collaboration with the Japanese studio NTT DoCoMo They claim to have technology capable of distinguishing even the irises of two twin brothers. Anyone who wants to have this breakthrough will have to get the latest model of their smartphones, the Arrows NX F-04G, for a price of around 670 euros. However, it is only on sale in Japan.

Since the trip is somewhat expensive, here is a video where we can see a demonstration of how this scanner works:

The ear, emojis, the iris, but also the voice or the fingerprint. All of them are systems for access our phone without our permission it becomes more complicated every day.