We've written before about Nymi, which makes a wristband that uses your unique heart pattern to authenticate your identity. For the first time, Nymi has been used to make a credit card payment. The payment was made on July 10 as part of a pilot project with TD Bank and MasterCard in Toronto, Ottawa, and Regina (that's in Saskatchewan -- north of North Dakota and Montana). In … [Read more...]
Listening to Breath
This article had us with this snippet: Using 10 years of data, which amounts to over 10,000 recordings of various people’s breathing... BreathResearch has a KickStarter campaign to raise $30,000 to build a Bluetooth smartphone headset that also tracks the sound of your breath. The interesting idea is that your breath is an important indicator of your health; by comparing how … [Read more...]