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your face or heartbeat could be the key to a future without cumbersome passwords all right let's see if I can log in with my face and I'm in Intel's true key is a password manager that uses facial recognition you can't get into your device unless it recognizes your face then it fills in your passwords for different sites so you don't have to remember them and as soon as true key gets enough information to know that I'm not a picture of me or a video of me but a real live person it'll say okay the technology is designed so it can work around facial hair hairstyles and glasses we take measurements of over a hundred different points on the face facial recognition is also coming to home security and monitoring cameras like arcsoft simplu cam you register different people's faces and when the camera detects that face or an unfamiliar face you can receive a customized alert the Nimmi band uses something inside your body your heartbeat it reads your electrocardiogram or the electrical current your heart generates when I put my finger on it that will complete the circuit and the name Eve and will then be able to actually read my ECG it's not reliant on your pulse and it's not a heart rate monitor is the unique characteristics that are within your ECG that's what we use to actually create our algorithm to create the digital signature its first application can unlock a Windows computer without a password Nimmi is also working with mastercard to test payments with the band so in the future instead of keys and a wallet all you may need when you walk out of the door is you in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News