The Smart Keyboard

智能键盘

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As data and identity theft becomes more and more common,the market is growing for biometric（生物特征识别的） technologies — like fingerprint scans — to keep others out of private e-spaces.

因为数据及个人身份的盗窃事件越来越常见，这给生物识别技术带来了可观的市场，比如说指纹扫描系统——可以让别人远离你的私人电子空间。

At present, these technologies are still expensive, though.Researchers from Georgia Tech say that they have come up with a low-cost device that gets around （逃避）this problem: a smart keyboard.

尽管现在这些技术还很昂贵，但是乔治亚理工大学的研究人员说他们已经想出了一个低成本设备可以避开这个问题，这个设备就是：智能键盘

This smart keyboard precisely measures the cadence（节奏） with which one types and the pressure fingers apply to each key.The keyboard could offer a strong layer of security by analyzing things like the force of a user's typing and the time between key presses.

这个智能键盘可以精确地测量出你打字的节奏以及你手指按压每个键盘的力度，这个键盘可以给你提供一个强力的安全保护防火墙通过分析一些使用者的数据，比如：使用者打字的力度和按压每个按键的间隙长短。

These patterns are unique to each person.Thus, the keyboard can determine people's identities, and by extension, whether they should be given access to the computer it's connected to —regardless of whether someone gets the password right.

每个人的数据都是独一无二的，因此键盘可以确认使用者的身份，而且通过这些数据它可以决定要不要让你使用电脑，不管你输入的密码是不是正确的。

It also doesn't require a new type of technology that people aren't already familiar with.Everybody uses a keyboard and everybody types differently.

智能键盘也不涉及任何你没有使用过的新型科技，每个人都使用键盘，每个人打字的方式都一样。

In a study describing the technology, the researchers had 100 volunteers type the word "touch" four times using the smart keyboard.Data collected from the device could be used to recognize different participants based on how they typed, with very low error rates.

在一项关于智能键盘的研究中，研究人员邀请了100名志愿者用智能键盘打“touch”这个单词4次，智能键盘可以通过收集的数据以非常低的误差分析他们的打字方式来区别每个志愿者。

The researchers say that the keyboard should be pretty straightforward to commercialize（使商业化） and is mostly made of inexpensive.The team hopes to make it to market in the near future.

研究人员表面，智能键盘的商业化非常得容易，并且它的造价也很便宜，所以他们的团队希望在不久的将来就将智能键盘投入市场。