Leave a gun lying around, and anyone who picks it up could fire it. That could change, though, with newly announced technology from Microchip Technology, which uses the body as part of a secure authentication process.

BodyCom, which the company announced last week, is a short-range communication system that uses the body as a wire between two points. In the example above, those points would be a little fob in your pocket and a touch pad on the firearm.

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