Samsung mulls phone that reads your palm to help remember your password

Samsung might soon have a subtler way of helping you remember your phone password, though: it would give you a palm reading.

A recently published patent application shows that Samsung has been exploring a system that would scan the unique lines on your palm and use them to display hints in the form of incomplete characters.

You’d get a nudge in the right direction, but nothing so obvious that a thief could guess it (even if they could use your hand).

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This could theoretically extend to signing you in, although Samsung would likely want to implement depth sensing or a similar technology to prevent evildoers from cheating with photos.

There’s no certainty that you’ll ever see this in the Galaxy S9 or any future Samsung phone.

It’s just a patent filing, and that won’t necessarily translate to a finished product.

It’s a simple-enough concept, though, and it could be extremely helpful if you’re struggling to get into an online store or are worried that you’ve locked yourself out of your phone.

 

 

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