“There has been a need,” so iWallet claims, “for new product innovation in the personal wallet industry for a long time.” Leaving aside sarcasm about whether there’s such a thing as the “communal wallet industry”, iWallet reckon their eponymous wallet is the solution to identity theft, a carbon-fiber clamshell case secured with a biometric fingerprint scanner and optionally fitted with Bluetooth to act as an alarm.
If you’re going to ask someone to design a bike, you may as well make it an Olympic medal winner. Chris Boardman has put pen to paper and come up with this concept for his Boardman Bikes brand, an “intelligent” cycle that not only keeps track of your calorie count but has fingerprint recognition for a biometric lock, integrated mediaplayer and a solar-powered motor for giving you a push when faced with hills.
Retina scanning, face recognition and fingerprint reading are common biometric systems for physical security accesses or computer logon systems, and in recent years the latter has become more widespread in consumer products such as laptops or handheld devices. Fingerprint readers, despite being nearly ubiquitous on notebooks these days, aren’t exactly popular mainly due to the concerns of public hygiene. Fujitsu’s approach, palm vein scanning, on the other hand, is non-invasive and contactless scanning: PalmSecure advanced biometric authentication technology comes in the form of a standard PC mouse and offers highly secure and reliable personal identity verification. SlashGear caught up with Dan Miller, business development manager at Fujitsu, to find out more.
Sony have announced a new method of biometric security, that relies on the patterns of veins inside a user’s finger rather than their fingerprints. Dubbed ‘mofiria’, the system relies on the veins scattering infrared light, which are then recognized by a small CMOS sensor. Since mofiria can compensate for differently-placed fingers, that means fewer frustrating repositioning swipes as often demanded by traditional fingerprint scanners.
We reported the feature-rich Fujitsu F-01A with its waterproof functionality not too long ago, but few details were revealed on the supposingly a breakthrough security feature utilizing fingerprint biometrics. The cat is out of the bag today; the manufacturer has spilled out the technology behind the fingerprint mobile phones.
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