i Heart U: Apple Patents Biometric iPhone Unlock

Brace yourselves for another Apple patent. It's a weird and wacky one. It's about using a "seamless" biometric heart rate monitor to identify iPhone users. Seriously. Your boom-tiddy-boom could unlock your iPhony-phone.

Apple's patent couldn't be simpler: Part of the metal shell of an iPhone (can you say iPhone 2010, anyone?) is replaced by electronic sensors that detect the pulse of the user's heart as it reaches the hand holding the phone. Peculiarities in each user's heart patterns at the...