Fingerprint scanning MP3 player

Everyone who wants to fork over their fingerprints to the record industry in order to listen to music raise your hand. Yeah, no hands, thought so. At the behest of everyone's favorite sue-happy organization, the RIAA, biometric company VeriTouch has teamed up with design firm Thinking Materials to create the iVue (please, people, try and think of more original names for these things), an audio and video player that uses fingerprint authentication to control access to media, which can be transferred over to the player wirelessly or via mini-DVD disks. We're guessing that the player will only work with music purchased from a "secure" downloading service, since if you could just add your own MP3s then the whole authentication aspect of this kinda doesn't work anymore.

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