Your Phone May Soon Recognize You By Your Movements

If you are a woman’s man with no time to talk, your phone may soon be able to tell by the way you use your walk.

The Pentagon is in the final phase of testing technology that is designed to allow smartphones to identify their owners based on their gait, the tension in their hand or the way their thumb moves on the screen.

Designed to reduce users’ reliance on passwords and text message verification codes, the technology is currently being tested on 50 phones at the Defense Department.

According to The Washington Post, the technology could be commercially available as soon as next year.

Though he declined to name the specific carriers that are interested in integrating it, Steven Wallace, a systems innovation scientist at the Pentagon’s Defense Information Systems Agency, did say the technology “will be available in the majority of handsets” in the U.S.

“Our goal from the very start was not to have something that was focused solely on the DoD,” Wallace said. “Our focus from the start was something usable at the commercial level.”

Though the technology was first developed for the military, Wallace is hopeful it will benefit society at large.

“I’m not going to say that we’re going to create something that’s as broad and as grand as GPS or the Internet, but there’s a history of the department working on things and those things ending up in consumer devices,” Wallace said.

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