Tag: FINGERPRINT

To ensure that kids don't get off at the wrong stops, some school districts have started using fingerprint and card scanners to track students who ride school buses. The Desert Sands Unified School District, located just north of San Diego, began testing a Biometric Observation Security System (BOSS) on its buses earlier this month, according to USA Today. Students simply touch their fingers to a ...

As any fan of 'The Wire' can tell you, clearly identifying criminal targets can be one of the most arduous tasks investigators face. Unlike Jimmy McNulty's Baltimore department, though, Brockton, Massachusetts police will soon be able to skip the whole wiretap, fiber-optics camera routine, thanks to a new iPhone app. The new system, called MORIS (Mobile Offender Recognition and Identification ...

When it comes to the Internet, we'd all like to think that we're more flying squirrels than slugs, gliding seamlessly over the Web without leaving so much as a shadow of a trail behind us. But, in reality, we've all had to resign ourselves to the hard truth that no matter how hard we try, we're pretty much guaranteed to leave some sort of digital slime, er... footprint as we surf. According to a ...

Rather than swipe a plastic card, some bank customers in Poland only need their fingertips to withdraw money. According to Popular Science, the BPS SA bank in Warsaw, Poland recently became the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM. Thanks to Hitachi's "Finger Vein" technology, customers simply place their index finger on a scanner that reads their vein pattern and then identifies exactly ...

Share It's a universal truth that the more time you spend in front of your computer, the grosser your keyboard gets. While we may be able to wipe away the grease stains and breadcrumb trails that late night snacking leaves in its wake, there's another, more microscopic residue that we can't wipe away -- and it may say a lot more about us than just our eating habits. A new study conducted ...

Share Aside from the Good Lord, parishioners at a Catholic church in Poland will soon have another seemingly omnipresent being making sure they attend mass: technology. According to Reuters, father Grzegorz Sowa recently installed in his church an electronic fingerprint scanner that keeps track of how often schoolchildren attend mass. If a student attends mass 200 times over a three-year period, ...

Radio frequency identification tags (RFID), which appear in items like credit cards and passports, have long been susceptible to hackers looking to steal personal information. Still, RFID tags are used in many ways -- from tracking a shipment of clothes to automatically opening a doggie door. But a breakthrough from a group of University of Arkansas scientists might just ease the minds of those ...

The line between science and science-fiction continues to blur. When we were young, functional prosthetic limbs blew our minds. Now, college students can build them. Not only do these devices allow amputees more independence, but some promise to restore the sense of touch, at that. While these developments are amazing enough, a couple of British biomechanicists (that's right; it's a word) might ...

Not sure if you folks have heard, but apparently there are some serious gang-related issues in Mexico. Crazy, right? Just about two years after the Mexican government began swapping game consoles and computers for weaponry in a bizarre (and evidently futile) effort to curb crime, the country has now decided to take things one step further. Beginning in April, a law will require mobile phone ...

Surely your remember Project Lantern from back in 2006, right? If you weren't too fond of that initiative, let's just say your worst nightmare is coming true. Going forward, every police force in the UK will be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners, which will allow the fuzz to carry out identity checks right on the street. Dubbed Project Midas, this here setup is supposed to "transform the ...