Researchers at Japan's Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a seat that can identify the user by the shape and heft of their buttocks.
The seat, currently designed for use in the car industry, contains 360 sensors measuring pressure points, on a scale or one to 256, and uses the data to build a US-style fanny fingerprint of the designated driver. The system is 98 per cent accurate, associate professor Shigeomi Koshimizu told Physorg.
"I'm feeling your bottom Dave"
If the auto makers take a liking to the technology the seat could be in use by 2014, but it's not just the car industry that could be interested. (The Register)
Researchers at Japan's Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a seat that can identify the user by the shape and heft of their buttocks.
The seat, currently designed for use in the car industry, contains 360 sensors measuring pressure points, on a scale or one to 256, and uses the data to build a US-style fanny fingerprint of the designated driver. The system is 98 per cent accurate, associate professor Shigeomi Koshimizu told Physorg.
"I'm feeling your bottom Dave"
If the auto makers take a liking to the technology the seat could be in use by 2014, but it's not just the car industry that could be interested. (The Register)