Future Login: The Odortype

The Cat


I spend an inordinate amount of time logging into things. I spend extra time forgetting passwords and then logging into various email accounts to recover passwords. It’s so obviously stupid that it will obviously be evolved out of in a generation. But how? What replaces the login?

What I’m thinking is smell. I think the computer should smell me, know who I am and let me do my stuff. That is, rather than fingerprinting or whatever, to use a wireless seemingly invisible odortype. I think that’s what the cat does and he’s not insanely smart. Should be possible.

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2011-03-30 16:59:20

Good idea. But I don’t think it will work in Sri Lanka because a majority of the majority smell of kiribath and kola kenda. I’m afraid we will have to continue with the old fingerprint ID until people decide to change their diet.

Bonchi Baba
2011-03-30 18:16:54

You forgot the folks dripping with thala thel and a big dot on their foreheads.

2011-03-30 22:11:58

He…he…he… Bonchi baba…

Me no Tamil…me no Sinhala Boobee either…me just want every mothers son and every mothers daughter born in this cunt ry to be treated equally.

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Bonchi Baba
2011-03-30 23:19:58

Doesn’t matter what you are, can’t leave out the thala thel folks no?

 
 
 
 
shammi
2011-03-30 21:47:08

But we’d smell different at different times of the day, and what about perfume and deodorant? What about the nature of our diet and (bad) habits like smoking? We’d have to carry around a pure sample of our personal essence I guess.
No, odortype login is not a good idea.

The way of the Dodo
2011-03-30 22:10:34

Shammi i suppose they can make a filter, that filters out the pure you from the you + goldleaf

shammi
2011-03-31 00:00:11

They should make some personal filters too. They’d have a good market for them. :D

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