Biometrics

Car Finger Print Reader Promises Safety & Security

Car Finger Print Reader Promises Safety & Security

Two Chinese students have invented a device that might mean ‘giving the finger’ before you even start your car.  Zhao Wencai and Li Zhoumu, from China’s University of Geoscience, have built a finger print reader that [...]

BACTrack: A Strawless Breathalyzer

BACTrack: A Strawless Breathalyzer

You’ll breath easy with the Digital Breathazlyer from BACTrack.  Aside from knowing if you’re too trashed to drive, you don’t have to place your mouth on a bacteria infested straw; just blow into the front of [...]

Out Of Juice? Just Strap on This Knee Brace

Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have developed a knee brace like device, that when worn while walking will charge an internal battery. The Biomechanical Energy Harvester (sounds more like an implant – it [...]

New Fraud Protection:Voice Recognition Credit Card

New Fraud Protection:Voice Recognition Credit Card

I just stumbled across this while reading this month’s issue of Popsci. Have you ever worried about a crook snagging your card and ordering high end goods over the phone? Well, the Beepcard contains a prototype [...]

Forget Signatures, Just Scan Your Fingerprint

Forget Signatures, Just Scan Your Fingerprint

A company known as SmartMetric ordered a press release today announcing the development of what they tout as the first ‘affordable’ fingerprint scanner for credit cards and similar sized IDs. This isn’t the first time we’ve [...]

Vein Scanning Keyboard Provides Extra Security

Vein Scanning Keyboard Provides Extra Security

You know those Vein scanners we talked about a couple months and some ago?  Well, it looks like they are finally making their way into some consumer level products.  The keyboard here features a Vein scanner for [...]