Would You Eat Your Password?

One of the ideas Motorola recently presented at a conference was the ‘vitamin authentication’ pill

Sick of remembering all the passwords and authentication information needed to access data, Regina Dugan, a Motorola executive, proposed a solution at the recent D11 conference–pills and tattoos.“Authentication is irritating. So irritating that only about half the people do it, even though there’s a lot of information about you on your smart phone,” Dugan was quoted as saying in a Discovery News report. One of the ideas Motorola presented was the ‘vitamin authentication’ pill—a small tablet containing an electronic chip. After you swallow this tablet, your stomach acts as an electrolyte for the chip’s battery, powering it and making the entire body an authentication token, which can be activated by touch. Dugan herself had an electronic tattoo, printed on her skin like a barcode, that enabled authentication. How Motorola plans to market this technology is unclear.

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