New PalmID technology enables unlocking with the palm of your hand

A San Francisco company called Redrock Biometrics has been working on a security tool that uses the palm of a user's hand.

Security tool using the user's palm.

According to Android Authority, advanced biometric security technologies used on smartphones today such as Samsung's iris scanning or Apple's 3D facial recognition (FaceID) are gaining a lot of attention and are gradually becoming a trend. However, the limitation of these methods is that the device requires special hardware to support that technology.

Recently, Redrock Biometrics, a San Francisco startup, has developed a palm-based security tool called PalmID. This technology uses the palm as a secure key to authenticate to a variety of online and offline services.

Company president Lenny Kontsevich says PalmID can be thought of as a scaled-up version of fingerprint sensor technology that uses the rich hand structure. It can also be recognized by a regular camera.

The company claims its authentication technology is more secure and practical than any facial recognition method. PalmID can use palm images captured by any camera with a resolution of 0.3 MP or higher and can authenticate very quickly, depending on the speed of the CPU.

According to TechCrunch, the technology will convert palm images into a signature that Redrock claims is unique and unforgeable. Almost any device with a camera can use PalmID, including smartphones, ATMs, desktop computers and AR/VR devices.

PalmID can also log in quickly on many mobile platforms such as Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. According to Redrock, palm recognition is not hindered by scars, stains, or insufficient light to take a photo. Just hold your hand in front of the camera at a distance of 6 inches or more, the device will authenticate the login, verify identity when making payments, and doing business through the bank.

Don't worry about someone seeing your palm and copying it unless you take a picture of your palm and post it on your profile for everyone to see (which you probably won't do, right?).

According to Khoahoc.tv