Log in with your wrist: Windows Hello to support wearables - CNET

Bill Gates famously said that making Windows users type Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log in was "a mistake".

Now, if Microsoft gets its way, typing could be phased out for good with the company unveiling a new way of logging in from your wrist.

Microsoft used its keynote presentation at Computex in Taiwan to talk up the new features of Windows Hello, its biometric sign-in feature that lets you log in to your computer by using your face, fingerprint or iris.

During a live demonstration of Hello, Microsoft also showed off a new feature: Signing in using a wearable.

The head of Microsoft's Windows Interact division, Li-Chen Miller, demonstrated the technology using the Nymi Band, a third-party wearable that uses heartbeat detection to authenticate the wearer.