Tag: IRIS

Like something out of a futuristic Roberto Bolaño novel, city officials in Leon, Mexico are currently putting together a citywide database of its citizens' irises. They plan on using the system to keep track of known criminal offenders -- and, presumably, every other person in the city. Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers has already begun shipping iris scanners to the city of more ...

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 ...

In our ongoing look at Tech Art History, we've been examining how technology has revolutionized the ways in which we both create and consume art. And, as we've seen, technology, among other things, has blurred the once impermeable divisions between artist and observer, and between the commercial and the artistic. It's a continuously fluid and evolving paradigm that German researcher Johannes ...