Every new version of Windows brings improvements over its previous versions. Microsoft has made progress in numerous fields of their operating system. These fields include the overall interface, desktop customization options, handling our files, and overall security. But the Welcome Screen and the way users login has remained somewhat unchanged. Users have to enter/select their username and then a password to login. Why has there not been a built-in Windows feature to change the way (for the better) users login to Windows? Suppose an exam was being conducted which required candidates to login with their accounts; anybody could login with anybody’s account as long as they knew their username and password.
Presenting an alternative to traditional Windows login and a solution to problems, such as the one above, is Luxand Blink. It provides its users with a different way to login to Windows: through facial recognition.
Luxand Blink is a free application comptable with 32 bit version of Windows Vista and Windows 7. The download size of the application is 8MB and installs in a standard way. For it work properly, of course a web cam is required to be installed in the computer.
The application starts running after the computer starts up but before it has logged on to any account. We can then look into the webcam and have our face recognized by the application. It uses its advance image recognition algorithms to recognize our face. Such is the competence of this application, that whether the lighting is different or our hair are different, Luxand Blink will still recognize our face and log us in.
An application increasing the security of the Windows logon procedure, Luxand Blink will serve many.
Luxand Blink! 2.0, released on 02/09/2010
File size: 8.3 MB
Supported OS: Windows Vista and Seven 32bit only
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