Although we have previously mentioned Toshiba’s face recognition technology in our coverage of the Satellite A300 and M300 and P300, it is only now that Toshiba is officially promoting the said feature. Toshiba has employed this technology to provide Satellite owners an additional way of securing their dear Toshiba machines from unauthorized users. The technology grants or denies access to people who might use the laptops depending on whether they are registered users.
To use the face recognition technology to secure their laptops, users need to have their face profiled by the laptop’s webcam during a short setup process. Once profiled, the laptop’s webcam would use this to reference people who are about to use the laptops as recognized by the laptop’s webcam. If a user’s face has not been profiled before, then the laptop would deny them access to the machine.
The use of face recognition technology suits well to those who bought Satellite laptops to use them for community purposes, such as in school or dormitories. Families who share the same laptop at home can also use this feature to grant or deny access to users who are not members of their families. Or perhaps even to prevent the youngest member of the family from using the laptop inappropriately.
I would have to admit that the addition of this technology in the latest models of Toshiba Satellite laptops is a nifty feature indeed. It’s a better replacement for password-protecting machines since users don’t have to memorize usernames and passwords anymore. And yes, we’re supposed to be living in an advanced world, so features like these in the machines we used are supposed to be normal already.
Perhaps, what some users might find a bit annoying would be the setting up of user accounts when they would have to subject themselves from being profiled by the Satellite laptops’ webcam. But it is certainly a worthy trouble and besides, users just have to do it once, unless a big change happened on their face, then they will have to update their profile picture to gain access to the laptop again.
The face recognition technology is currently available on some of the latest Toshiba Satellite laptop series including, U400, M300, A300 and P300.
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