Fujitsu PalmSecure mouse: reads veins, won't secure palms

If you think about all the crap you could integrate into a mouse, a world's first vein reader seems downright, ingenious. Still, it's just the latest biometric technique to join iris-scanning and fingerprint reading mousers. The USB mouse from Fujitsu incorporates their PalmSecure scanner and Windows compatible software to authenticate your veins at login. You too, assuming that hand is still attached to the rest of your body.

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[marcopolococo @ Sep 11th 2007 7:16AM]

useless gadget

[LS @ Sep 11th 2007 7:27AM]

reminds me of an episode of Red Dwarf

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 11th 2007 7:34AM]

It was wiley, and it was a post, but it wasn't Wiley Post.

[Joseph @ Sep 11th 2007 7:59AM]

It would be a scene from a horror movie is someone stole your password.

[NHAnimator @ Sep 11th 2007 8:24AM]

What if you use some other body part to move your mouse?

I'm just asking.

[3boos @ Sep 11th 2007 9:39AM]

HAVA HAPA! HAPA! HAPA! :)

[JC @ Sep 11th 2007 10:04AM]

c

[John @ Sep 11th 2007 11:47AM]

I would support this - and all other biometric readers - if there was some way to make sure that, for example, blood was still flowing through the veins in your hand.

[themark @ Sep 11th 2007 11:54PM]

The scanner only operates if the hand is still attached to your body because it reads the vein outline. This pattern would change if anything unfortunate were to happen to it. So I guess we can count on your support John?