Phone recognizes face of owner

Japanese must love their cellphones a whole lot as NTT DoCoMo is offering the P903i that is able to recognize its owner, automatically locking the phone whenever the owner wanders too far away. This is made possible with a small black card that acts as a security key which connects to the cellphone wirelessly. As long as the security card remains in the owner’s pocket within a stipulated range, the phone will not be locked. Those who lose their security cards can enter a password into the cellphone manually. In case you lose it on your travels, there is always a satellite tracking system to help you find it. The P903i even requires a person to take at least a trio of photos of themselves with the phone’s camera as part of the facial identification feature before personal data on the phone can be retrieved.