Bionym’s wearable authentication device ships to developers

A new wearable device designed to use your unique heart rhythms to authenticate your identity for everything from your smartphone to your car door is being shipped to developers.

Bionym Inc., a Toronto-based company working on what could be the world’s first wearable authentication device, announced today that manufacturing has begun on the Nymi Band. The first units already have been shipped to developers in an effort to build out an application ecosystem.

The Nymi is expected to be officially released this fall, though a specific date hasn’t be announced.

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