September 23, 2019 By Danny Bradbury
We’re used to identifying ourselves to our phones using our fingers, our faces, and even our irises, but now, researchers are targeting a new piece of our body that they say could be the perfect identifier: The inside of our ears.
Researchers at University at Buffalo, State University of New York and Syracuse University have discovered a way to use wireless earbuds as a biometric authentication system. Called EarEcho, it uses a small microphone inserted in a regular pair of wireless earbuds. When the earbuds play audio, it records the sound that bounces back from the ear canal, creating a unique profile of the user’s inner ear.
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