Nothin’ like a G-Knot: finger vein crypto wallet mixes hard science with soft lines
Let’s be frank: most biometric security hardware is not especially handsome. Facial scanners and fingerprint readers tend to skew toward practical, not to say clunky aesthetics. On the other end of the spectrum, an iris-scanning orb is, fundamentally, a deeply silly design concept.
G-Knot’s CEO Wes Kaplan says the firm designed its cold crypto wallet to look like a hockey puck – which is accurate if you assume Transformers play hockey. The sleek but hearty little disc uses fingerprint vein biometrics, subdermal near-infrared imaging and CCD cameras to derive security keys without the need for passwords or seed phrases. Its secret weapon is the P2N2 authentication module algorithm developed by South Korean firm…
