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How to log in to Windows

10 with your face
With an Intel RealSense 3D camera, you can use
Windows Hello sign in with your face instead of your
password.
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If your PC, or more likely, your next PC has Intel's RealSense 3D

camera along with Windows 10, then you can simply place your face in
front of your PC to log in to Windows.

Intel's RealSense 3D camera is actually three cameras in one. It

features a 1080p HD camera, an infrared camera and an infrared laser
projector, which together can measure depth and track the location
and position of objects in space. Intel has a meager collection of
games and apps that work with the RealSense 3D camera, but the best
application to use with the camera thus far is Windows 10's biometric
authentication feature called Windows Hello.

With Windows Hello, you can use a fingerprint scanner or the

RealSense 3D camera to log into Windows via your finger or face,
respectively.

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I am using the RealSense 3D camera-equipped Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO

700 PC to show you how to set up Windows Hello so that you can log
in using your face instead of needing to type in a password.

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1. Go to Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options

2. Set up an account password and PIN

3. Click the "Set up" button for Face under Windows Hello

4. Click the "Get started" button, enter your PIN, and sit in front of the
camera while Windows takes a few seconds to scan your face.

5. Click "Close" and you're all set.

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(You can return to this page in Settings and click "Improve recognition"
so that Windows Hello can better recognize your mug, whether you're
now wearing glasses, grown a beard or find yourself in different
lighting conditions than when you first enrolled.)

After setting up Windows Hello, the next time you encounter the
Windows 10 lock screen, instead of asking for your password, it will
look for your face. At the top of the lock screen, a "Looking for you..."
message is displayed until the Intel RealSense 3D camera recognizes
your face and logs you in.

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I found that Windows Hello was quick to recognize my mug, and it

didn't force me to lean in; I was able to simply sit down in front of the
PC as I normally would to be logged in.

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PHONES

If foldable phones catch on,

you can thank an unlikely
source
When it comes to creating phones that take new
shapes, little-known handset maker ZTE wants to lead
the charge.
BY ROGER CHENG / JANUARY 19, 2018 5:00 AM PST

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Smartphones with foldable displays are either a waste of time or the

next breakthrough in handsets.

It just depends on whom you ask.

You can count Lixin Cheng, head of ZTE's mobile business, as

someone solidly in the pro-foldable camp. Last year, ZTE released the
Axon M, a clamshell-like phone that has two screens and can be
opened up to create a single larger display. It includes a hinge and
doesn't have a true foldable display, but Cheng believes the design will
inspire a new wave of phones.

"I'm confident we'll be

leading this way for some
time to come," Cheng (no

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relation to this reporter)

said last week during a
dinner in Las Vegas,
where the CES 2018 trade
show was taking place.
"We're committed to this
category."

The Axon M has a unique two-screen design that

It's one thing if ZTE, a
flips out to form a larger display.
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telecommunications
equipment maker best
known in the US for selling budget phones, talks about a new design
scheme. But consumer electronics heavy hitter Samsung lent this idea
some weight in September when its mobile chief, DJ Koh, said he
hoped to launch a foldable phone this year. Lenovo has weighed in on
atypical screens, too, with a concept watch that can wrap around your
wrist. 

Lenovo's phone-centric Motorola unit and Samsung weren't available

to offer an updated comment for this article.

Let's face it: Phones could use a radical shake-up. They're all
essentially the same plastic or metal slab with a glass display -- a
design popularized by Apple and Steve Jobs with the original iPhone,
which debuted 11 years ago. Last year saw the proliferation of
"borderless displays," which pack more screen into a smaller body, as
seen in the iPhone X, Galaxy S8 and LG G6.

We're already over it.

Watch this: It's inevitable: Samsung will build a phone with a

1:36
foldable...

A foldable display that can expand or contract based on your needs

has a chance to really get us excited about mobile devices again. It
would mark a significant jump in innovation and design for
smartphones, which generally see only incremental updates each year.

Forget wearables, how about foldables?

But there are a ton of
technical and practical
hurdles. And while early
adopters and gadget
Samsung has teased bendable screens for years.
Can it make good on its goal to release a foldable
phone?
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enthusiasts might salivate

over the prospects of displays that bend and fold, mainstream
consumers could shy away from such a big deviation from the norm.
After all, phones utilizing other unique concepts, like modular parts or
the squat keyboard design of the BlackBerry Passport, received cool
receptions. Kyocera actually had a fold-out phone, called the Echo,
back in 2011. It received scathing reviews.

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"Someday foldable will be great, but today it's just gimmicky," said
Maribel Lopez, an analyst at Lopez Research.

What do the other big players in the industry say? I got a chance to talk
to some of them at CES last week.

Cautious interest
LG Electronics, one of the world's largest consumer electronics makers
and perennial crosstown rival to Samsung, wouldn't comment on
whether it was building a foldable phone, but President and Chief
Technology Officer Il-pyung Park called it an "interesting feature."

"Any new technology and innovation that makes sense we will consider
in our future products," he said in an interview at the Mandalay Bay
Convention Center.

Like Samsung, LG has a separate business that focuses on building

displays, and at CES it showed off a 65-inch television that you can roll
up like a poster. It's not a huge stretch to imagine that the company is
considering smaller-scale devices like phones.

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LG's OLED television can roll into a little box like a poster. 
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One other company, which for competitive reasons didn't want to be

named, is working on a foldable phone, but that device wouldn't
appear this year.

ZTE, meanwhile, is laying the groundwork by getting developers to

start thinking about apps that take advantage of both the two separate
screens (when folded in) or the single larger screen (when folded out).

The Axon M just launched in China, and Cheng said he's working to
spur more app development there.

LG's 18-inch rollable OLED display

(pictures) 11

Cheng showed me a double-sided camera app. One screen is the

typical viewfinder display, while the second screen, facing outward
toward the subject, offers colorful and cute imagery, designed to catch
the attention of your child.
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As the shutterbug parent of a son who's about to turn two, I

immediately glommed on to the idea.

Just a gimmick?
Despite Cheng's excitement, there're plenty of rivals who prefer to stick
with making thinner, more powerful phones.

"Personally, I don't like flip phones," OnePlus CEO Pete Lau said at a
cafe in the Bellagio. "I hope phones can be as simple as possible."

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Under-the-radar phone giant Honor has its eye on the US

The biggest benefit from tinkering with foldable displays has been the
improvements they've spurred in industry design, Lau said, citing the
curved-edge display found on the Galaxy S8. He said there's some
opportunity to create a wraparound screen that goes to the back of the
device -- but with limitations.

His concerns are shared by many in the industry. It's not just about
bendable displays. Phone makers need to figure out how to get the
components and battery to move too. There are a myriad of practical
concerns.

"How susceptible is it to breakage or permanent wrinkles?" said Ramon

Llamas, an analyst at IDC. There are still too many questions, Llamas
said, for him to want to make the jump.

George Zhao, president of Huawei unit Honor, said foldable displays

and multiple screens are concepts the company plays with in R&D. But
such features would come at the cost of having heavier and thicker
devices, and the ideas are thrown out when the company readies a
mass-production smartphone.

"I don't see enough value for the consumer," Zhao said during an
interview at the Hard Rock Cafe Hotel.

Others just prefer the conservative approach. Gareth Hurn, global head
of devices for TCL's BlackBerry unit, said the idea of a foldable phone
wouldn't fit with its pillars of reliability and productivity.

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BlackBerry tried a unique, squat design in the Passport. But now it's going back to basics
with a focus on reliability and productivity.
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"With something new, there's always trade-offs," Hurn said in an

interview at the Encore Hotel.

Cheng, however, doesn't see any sacrifices when it comes to a new

design and adding value for the consumer. The new design could
inspire different apps, like the baby camera.

"Consumers deserve to have better products that are meaningful and

useful to them," he said. 

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