Paying for a coffee or lunch by simply scanning your palm still sounds like science fiction to most of us. However, an engineering student at Lund University in Sweden has made it happen... Read more
The use of biological markers like fingerprints, faces and irises to identify people is rapidly moving from science fiction to reality. Apple’s latest iPhone, which went on sale this week, c... Read more
No consistent change occurs in the distinguishing texture of their irises for at least a decade A new report* by biometric researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (... Read more
Recognizing people by the way they walk can have numerous applications in the fields of security, leisure or medicine. Ramon Mollineda, lecturer at the Department of Computing Languages and... Read more
Instantaneous face recognition that would be almost impossible to spoof Forget fingerprints or iris recognition, the next big thing in biometrics will be a thermal imaging scan that maps the... Read more
IN “SKYFALL”, the latest James Bond movie, 007 is given a gun that only he can fire. It works by recognising his palm print, rendering it impotent when it falls into a baddy’s hands. Like ma... Read more
The days of using a plastic card to prove your identity are numbered, as advances in security technology are making it increasingly easy to identify a person using only biometric information... Read more
Image by AV-1 via Flickr Biometric systems — designed to automatically recognize individuals based on biological and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, palm prints, or voice or fa... Read more