With fingerprint scanners having become almost a commodity item nowadays-- we've already got a
hard drive and
thumb drive on biometric lockdown -- it looks like we may now be in for a sensitivity war (oxymoron?) among these devices similar to the ongoing megapixel escalation in digital cameras. Even though it's probably still vulnerable to
Play-Doh-equipped hackers, NEC's new external USB reader offers an impressive 800dpi in its 15-millimeter wide sensor -- it seems the best you can do today is around 500dpi -- which at the very least will marginally speed up your web surfing, thanks to its slim 0.0001% chance of misidentifying a print. This "reading precision of the worldwide highest level" (thanks, machine translation) won't come cheap, though, as the pocket-size PU700-20 will cost about $250 when it ships on August 1st.
[Via
Digital World Tokyo]
posted Jun 25th 2006 10:24AM
My NEC laptop already has a ultrasensitive fingerprint reader. So sensitive it evens detects a finger without a finger being above the thing.
fujitsu is better
ah, but will it work on osx? that is the question.
Sagem tecnology : http://www.xelios.com/mso-1300x.html
No doubt!
What about algorithms??????
$250 is too much. We buy way cheap from M2SYS. They have few different fingerprint scanners.
Thanks