Key Lemon: Login with a smile
Key lemon is a cool free program that allows you to login to your computer using only a webcam. The system is not the smartest facial recognition that I’ve ever seen, you need to be in approximately the same position and angle when looking at your computer and also not drastically change your appearance with things like glasses being on or off. However, the system is free and is still quite good, and darn impressive to see work.
Using a free system like keylemon with a cheap webcam proves one thing to me. Facial recognition is amazing. People worry about rfid tags and implanted computer chips to confirm your identity. Those thing will probably become irrelivant in the wake of a really powerful facial recognition systems. Imagine if bestbuy could link your face to your credit card information and identify you from their security cameras everytime you entered the store. They could record everything from the frequency of your visits and purchases to the types of things you like to look at when you are in the store. The power of this technology for mareting entities everywhere could be truly amazing. Unfortunately the annoyance to consumers could be equaly as intense.
