"Mind Reading" may replace the traditional password: EEG recognizes brainwaves to identify

Security experts always advise us not to write the password on paper. If there is a technology that allows you to keep your password in your brain at all times, and the computer determines your identity through "mind reading", will you fall in love with this technology? A team at the University of California Berkeley invented such a technology.

This technology can recognize users' brainwaves and identify users. This brainwave is known as EEG. In the past, to identify these signals, a large number of expensive instruments were required. This makes this Technology unavailable.

"No one installs expensive devices at home to enter the login password," Berkeley Information Institute said in a blog ."

Today, Professor John Chuang has invented a low-cost EEG reading device, and he and his team have started their experiments. This device is similar to a common bluetooth device and can connect to a computer wirelessly. The price of the device will be around $100. This device only scans and recognizes one channel of users' brainwaves. The team thought that scanning only one channel was not enough for the computer to identify the user, but the experiment results showed that such worries were redundant.

Although the price of $100 is not too low, this product may still attract some high-end users, especially those who are very concerned about account security, such as enterprise operators.

When using this product, you must specify a "brain password" for your account, such as imagining a scenario, a song, or an action. When you think about this "brain password", your brain will generate a unique EEG signal that the device can read and determine the user's identity.