Bankcard powered with SiPix e-paper technology

Alexander Turcic · 05-11-2006, 01:15 PM

It's faintly irritating that whenever we hear about a commercial product with E Ink technology being introduced, it's usually not an e-book reader. So here we have SiPix Imaging, another expert in developing electrophoretic displays, who announced today that they developed a flexible e-paper display embedded into DisplayCard, a bankcard for secure authentication. SiPix's technology comes in handy because it's flexible, thin, and consumes only little power (as should be expected from e-paper). The card uses One Time Passwords (OTP) to ensure that you can only use a password once and that a discovered password (through crackers, sniffers, loggers) is basically useless. From the press release:

During an online merchant checkout or home banking login, the cardholder obtains a new, unique number by pressing a button on the card. As prompted, the cardholder then enters the number, proving the presence of the card, and completes the transaction. With the DisplayCard, banks can strengthen online banking sign-on by enabling two-factor authentication.

Laurens · 05-11-2006, 01:20 PM

Maybe you can read RSS feeds on it?

TadW · 05-11-2006, 01:24 PM

Or how about turning this one into an e-book reader? You could flash single words to the display, which you'd call tachistoscopic reading, right?

Pride Of Lions · 05-11-2006, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TadW

Or how about turning this one into an e-book reader? You could flash single words to the display, which you'd call tachistoscopic reading, right?

Nah, because then we'd have to regurgitate that discussion about how writers need to re-adjust their whole entire writing style to accomodate this new medium.

05-11-2006, 01:15 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 12,730 Karma: 71589 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Sony Portable Reader	Bankcard powered with SiPix e-paper technology It's faintly irritating that whenever we hear about a commercial product with E Ink technology being introduced, it's usually not an e-book reader. So here we have SiPix Imaging, another expert in developing electrophoretic displays, who announced today that they developed a flexible e-paper display embedded into DisplayCard, a bankcard for secure authentication. SiPix's technology comes in handy because it's flexible, thin, and consumes only little power (as should be expected from e-paper). The card uses One Time Passwords (OTP) to ensure that you can only use a password once and that a discovered password (through crackers, sniffers, loggers) is basically useless. From the press release: During an online merchant checkout or home banking login, the cardholder obtains a new, unique number by pressing a button on the card. As prompted, the cardholder then enters the number, proving the presence of the card, and completes the transaction. With the DisplayCard, banks can strengthen online banking sign-on by enabling two-factor authentication.

05-11-2006, 01:20 PM	#2
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05-11-2006, 01:24 PM	#3
TadW Uebermensch Posts: 2,476 Karma: 8172 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	Or how about turning this one into an e-book reader? You could flash single words to the display, which you'd call tachistoscopic reading, right?