Gone are the days when the worst abuse to be suffered from a lost cellphone was having your naughty text messages forwarded to "Mom mobile". Now we carry everything on the little pocket device: sensitive documents, email, photographs and more. Sure, most phones can be set to require a PIN, but entering a four digit number just to check the time gets old fast.
Enter Japanese company Oki, and its new iris-scanning software. The 200 KB program, which right now works on Symbian, Windows Mobile and XP operating systems (sorry, iPhone owners), uses the phone's camera and some algorithmic jiggery-pokery to scan your eye and unlock the handset. Oki claims a one in 100,000 accuracy rate, and the camera must be 1MP or better, and processing takes just half a second on a 32Bit RISC 220MHz processor. Now you just need to make sure nobody steals your eyes.
Product page [Oki – translated]
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