An Israeli general has developed a new security technology that can identify a person by their voice, face and body shape, the New York Daily News reported Friday.
The technology, called "biometric security" could one day make keys and passwords obsolete, ushering a new era of advanced security technology usually found in movies.
"This is only the beginning," General Aharon Farkash, president and founder of the company FST21, told the Daily News. "This is the way people will enter buildings in the 21st century."
Farkash's goal is to introduce "biometric security" to New Yorkers. He already has an office set up at 7 World Trade Center, the Daily News reported.
In order to visit the office, Farkash sends a code to a person's smart phone. The visitor then holds their phone up to the scanner which lets them through. Employees are the only ones that can come and go, gaining access by an 8-inch scanner that recognizes the way an employee's body moves.
"Just like a fingerprint, we all look and act in a unique way," Farkash told the Daily News.
Most "biometric" technology comes in the form of retinal scanners and finger print readers. Although the technology has existed since the '70s, it's only recently that advances in biometrics have been made.
"People have been talking about this for decades as the future, but I think the technology is finally good enough and invisible enough that people will start to embrace it," Robert McCrie, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told the Daily News.
Farkash told the Daily News the technology is not meant to search for and expose criminals. His technology is a simple way to get from place to place, where all someone has to do is move in front of a camera that will scan their face and body.
The information is then stored into the system's memory, the Daily News reported.
Farkash believes that biometrics will one day be a necessity of everyday life.
"Cities are crowded, often dangerous places, with the gap between the rich and poor growing," Farkash told the Daily News. "We need a way to live safely but also comfortably next door to one another."
