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Heath · 06-02-2013, 03:17 PM

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The general strategy for safely maintaining several accounts is never to use the same password. Most of us have so many different accounts nowadays — email, bank accounts, productivity apps, games, and so on — that it becomes too difficult to remember them all, and creating a password keychain and backing it up can be a hassle. Also, typing out logins and passwords through two or more levels of security, though quick, is a pain. If you could have your accounts recognize you without having to enter any kind of information, would you be interested? Motorola, doing the best impression of a rockstar that it can, wants us all to get tattoos and take pills instead of type out passwords.
At the All Things D conference, Regina Duncan — formerly of DARPA, currently head of Motorola special projects — mentioned two projects her division is developing. The first, an electronic tattoo, is used in place of a password. Duncan was wearing a model on her forearm (seen below), and it comes equipped with sensors and antennas that can recognize, for instance, your smartphone. So, rather than mistype a tedious password every time you want to download a new app, you can instead just wear a little barcode tattoo. For those of you that have been mulling over tattoo ideas for years and still haven’t been able to pull the inky trigger, it seems like Duncan’s tattoo is more of a sticker.