{"id":25495,"date":"2016-05-08T00:48:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T07:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-can-now-identify-individuals-based-on-brain-waves-and-its-100-accurate"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:26","slug":"scientists-can-now-identify-individuals-based-on-brain-waves-and-its-100-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-can-now-identify-individuals-based-on-brain-waves-and-its-100-accurate","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Can Now Identify Individuals Based on Brain Waves\u2014And It\u2019s 100% Accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-can-now-identify-individuals-based-on-brain-waves-and-its-100-accurate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers discovered that people respond to stimuli differently enough that it is possible to create a unique signature, a brainprint, that could one day replace fingerprints in a number of instances.<\/p>\n<p>For the longest time, the world has relied on fingerprints as a way to easily identify individuals. This is because a fingerprint is unique (and permanent) for each person\u2014so what happens when someone\u2019s fingerprint is stolen? This may sound a little farfetched, but it is easy enough to take a fingerprint from another, you just need to swipe a glass that they held.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, you can\u2019t grow a new finger to replace the print. This means that, when it gets compromised, it\u2019s compromised forever. But now, researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Binghamton University<\/a> have found a more efficient way to identify people\u2014using brain waves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-can-now-identify-individuals-based-brain-waves-100-accurate\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-can-now-identify-individuals-...-accurate\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers discovered that people respond to stimuli differently enough that it is possible to create a unique signature, a brainprint, that could one day replace fingerprints in a number of instances. For the longest time, the world has relied on fingerprints as a way to easily identify individuals. This is because a fingerprint is unique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67545,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495\/revisions\/67545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}