Friday, October 04, 2002
Posted by Roberto
11:03 AM
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BIOMETRIC MOUSE
Original Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/3001_1102002_3.asp
The Fujitsu-Siemens device captures an image of the user's veins, which is as individual as a fingerprint but harder to fake. The network of blood vessels is unchanging and is not affected by dirt or skin damage, as is the case with fingerprints
An infrared light source illuminates the network of blood vessels in the palm as black lines, and a digital camera records the image through an aperture in the top of the mouse. The device will be available to corporates next year, and in tests correctly identified 700 users from their handprint. For the mass market Fujitsu-Siemens is predicting an error rate of less than 0.5 per cent.
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