Comments on: Lenovo’s new facial recognition- it’s not new! http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/ Thu, 23 May 2013 14:08:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: wafik http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396038 Thu, 14 May 2009 12:30:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396038 i am sorry, that i forgot to give more information that i using lenovo y310.. i’m sorry for this mistake.

]]> By: wafik http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396037 Thu, 14 May 2009 12:28:20 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396037 i have lost my lenovo driver including the veriface driver. have u solved me for this case.. thanks for u’r attention.. please advice me..

]]> By: gargee mohanty http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396031 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:53:26 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396031

my easy to capture is not working..its askin the password..pls can u help me out of this

]]> By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396032 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:30:33 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396032

I can see it coming…. while today’s movies sometimes show the bad guys use a severed finger to break into a secure computer/room with fingerprint authentication, in future movies they’ll have to carry around severed heads. Ughh!

]]> By: Michael http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396033 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:58:07 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396033

wonder what happens, if you put a picture of the user in front of the cam.-is it easier to trick this system or a fingerprint-scanner?

]]> By: Scott_H http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396034 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:21:15 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396034

Well, that didn’t take long. Seems LifeHacker featured freeware, called BananaScreen (by BananaSecurity), last July that does this very thing.

I just checked out their site and they have taken it down. A popup says there was a trademark issue and they had to rename the product (which they now call KeyLemon — curious new name…hope it’s not a, uh, lemon) and it will be released in a new re-branded version “in one week.”

Btw, this blog post already comes up on page 2 of a Google search for “face recognition.”

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396035 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:20:37 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396035

This technology may have been patented by IBM back in the day and Lenovo got it in the ThinkPad purchase.

]]> By: Scott_H http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac/#comment-396036 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:10:14 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/lenovos-new-fac#comment-396036

If the technology is that old, then surely there are other 3rd party apps for us non-Lenovo laptop users. I know many (most?) webcams these days ship with face-recognition apps that’ll put cutesy images on, or in place of, the user’s face. In fact, I’d be surprised if there weren’t freeware or open source face recognition security apps floating around somewhere.

Anyone know (before I ask Mr. Google)?

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