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Wearable Technology

Smart wearable devices are becoming an increasingly popular form of identification using biometric measurements and are set to replace traditional password and chip and pin authentication methods while continuing to assist both the fitness and medical industries.

 

Biometrics in healthcare, mobile authentication, Aadhaar, Biometrics2015 and more top stories

Here is a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics 2015:…

 

FBI biometrics facility, border security, heartbeat and fingerprint authentication most popular news this week

Here’s a recap of the most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. FBI opens biometrics…

 

Nymi Band completes first heartbeat-authenticated payment with a wearable device

The Nymi Band, a wearable authentication device that uses electrocardiogram technology, has been used to make the world’s first credit…

 

Credit card companies, banks piloting biometric authentication technologies

Credit card companies and Canadian banks are developing biometric authentication technologies to enable customers to validate transactions both in-store and…

 

Apple granted patent for new Apple Watch biometric ID system

In the third Apple Watch-related patent filing published in the past month, Apple has filed a new biometrics related patent…

 

Egis to host FIDO pavilion, cloud authentication forum at Computex Taipei 2015

Egis Technology Inc. will be promoting its new line of fingerprint IC sensors, authentication solutions, mobile payment solutions, smartband, smartwatch,…

 

EgisTec discusses their EH570 fingerprint touch sensor

Egis Technology, a Taiwan-based firm that specializes in biometrics, demonstrated its newest fingerprint IC sensor, which it claims to be…

 

Samsung developing Biosignal ID for smartwatch to process financial transactions

Samsung has been working on remedying issues with its fingerprint scanner for smartphones and tablets, along with developing a way…

 

Nymi to test biometric wristband at UK-based Halifax bank

Following its first successful trial with Royal Bank, Canadian biometric technology firm Nymi is set to undergo trials at the…

 

Hyundai releases voice recognition-enabled smartwatch app for Android

Hyundai has launched its Blue Link voice recognition-enabled smartwatch companion app for Android Wear on Google Play, which will also…

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