Contactless Fingerprint Scanner That Can Capture Your Prints from Meters Away.

Until today, there existed such Fingerprint Biometric Readers that required your touch to authenticate yourself as an authorized person. However, the latest research shows that the future of fingerprint scanners lies in a "no-touch" activity by an individual for gaining access. Recently, NIST (National [...]

BodyPrint Technology Turns Smartphones into Biometric Scanners

Yahoo! don’t want you to every time type a PIN or swipe your phone or scan your thumbprint in order to unlock your smartphone. Instead, it only wants you to place your smartphone device on your ear in order to do that. A new concept from Yahoo’s Research Labs is out that doesn’t focus on old [...]

BIOMETRICS

UK's Merseyside Police Plan Biometric Bail System

Police in the UK city of Liverpool are replacing a paper-based bail system with a biometric process, saying that biometrics will save money and cut breaches of bail condition.

The Merseyside Police scheme has been awarded funding of £360,000 (US$531,800) by the  UK  Home Office, from the £70 million Police Innovation Fund aimed at transforming policing through innovation...