NEC announces super-sensitive fingerprint scanner

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]

[roel vossen @ Jun 25th 2006 3:15PM]

My NEC laptop already has a ultrasensitive fingerprint reader. So sensitive it evens detects a finger without a finger being above the thing.

[ev @ Jun 25th 2006 6:17PM]

fujitsu is better

[mainframe @ Jun 25th 2006 8:15PM]

ah, but will it work on osx? that is the question.

[PeterPunk @ Jun 27th 2006 5:51PM]

Sagem tecnology : http://www.xelios.com/mso-1300x.html

No doubt!

[PeterPunk @ Jun 27th 2006 5:53PM]

What about algorithms??????

[Jacob @ Mar 20th 2007 2:15PM]

$250 is too much. We buy way cheap from M2SYS. They have few different fingerprint scanners.

[gary poulson @ Jun 30th 2007 9:59AM]

Thanks