She showed off a pill made by Proteus for medical applications. Dugan said she takes a daily vitamin and we could also work password management into our daily habits if we took a daily “vitamin authentication.” That’s not the only bit of innovation that the Motorola advanced technology team has been working on. She added that some teenagers might not want to wear a watch, but “they would wear a tattoo, if only to piss off their parents.” These future authentication tattoos would give people colorful, cool design options. MC10 claims that it “extends human capabilities through virtually invisible and conformal electronics.” Dugan said, Motorola plans to work with MC10 to advance such an authentication tattoo. It has an antenna and sensors embedded in it that would work to authenticate Motorola smartphone users as opposed to punching in a PIN number at least 39 times daily. She showed the D11 audience her tattoo made by MC10. “But you could also think about a means of authentication that you could simply wear on your skin, every day for a week at a time, say an electronic tattoo.” Power users would do it up to 100 times a day.” She said we need options for doing authentication better and mentioned near-term solutions such as “tokens or fobs with NFC or Bluetooth embedded in them.” How many times a day do you enter a PIN to check your smartphone? Dugan said, “The average user does it 39 times a day and it takes them 2.3 seconds every time they do it. In fact it’s so irritating only about half the people do it,” she said, “despite the fact that there’s a lot of information about you on your smartphone, which makes you far more prone to identity theft than if you didn’t otherwise have it there.” Bad passwords are a problem of plague proportions as are equally poor and quirky PIN trends. The really fun and freaky D11 parts started when Dugan, DARPA’s former head, started talking about what Motorola's Advanced Technology and Project group is working on regarding unsolved problems such as authentication. On the one hand, because it allows us to get ahead in our work, but on the other hand - and this is where it gets interesting - because studies have been able to show positive psychological impacts related to the possibility of using one’s strengths: people who have the opportunity to do so are six times more engaged at work and three times more likely to describe their quality of life as excellent.īefore we go on, a clarification: focusing on your strengths obviously does not mean ignoring your weaknesses! It is rather a question of seeing how, by a clever mix, one can compensate for them, and put oneself in a posture of development.At the recent All Things Digital D11 conference, Motorola chief Dennis Woodside talked about the upcoming ‘Moto X’ phone and Regina Dugan, the former DARPA head, discussed the future of authentication it could include wearable authentication in the form of digital tattoos, or passwords that could be managed via popping a daily authentication vitamin. The fact is, we all have strengths that are unique to us, and harnessing them can pay off. How well are you able to identify your own strengths? Or do you tend to notice your weaknesses?
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