We go back 9 years to CES 2014 to learn about the Myris (as in ‘my iris’) a way to sign onto websites without a user name or password. The company that makes it, EyeLock, says only DNA is more accurate! Since no two irises are alike, the company says chances of a false match are less than one in two trillion. Setting it up is said to be as easy as using a mirror. Myris looks at more than 240 points on each iris and generates a unique 2048-bit digital signature. To authenticate your ID, it needs to match up with your actual eyes. Photos, video recordings or other fakes won’t work. It’s powered through the USB connection, so no batteries are needed. And up to five people can have individually protected accounts. Secure communication and military grade encryption with AES 256. Price was expected to be under $300. Find out what we discovered about this device on this week’s show. It’s actually quite interesting.
More info: http://www.eyelock.com
Video Link to the old Giz Wiz Show: https://twit.tv/shows/weekly-daily-giz-wiz/episodes/1452
For talk about the Myris, start at about 23:00
We also talked about the Tethercell AA Smart Battery Adapter on this show. It was a way to use one of their cells to control on/off a device that used AA batteries via their app. Tethercell did make it to the marketplace for a short time. They were even on Amazon, but the rating and reviews were terrible. Chad demonstrated it during the January 2014 show (link below) and found the app was awful. Spoiler Alert: It seems now to have disappeared from sale.
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1919
We have one more week of CES 2023 gadgets and then in February, we’ll be back to showing your warehouse videos and reading your emails, so keep sending them in! Thank you.
