This form of biometry is another favorite of moviemakers. Heroes often access cars and secret underground tunnels by just mentioning a few key phrases into a little microphone. In fact, even the Nokia 3310 ha ndset allows one to record one’s voice to attach to a particular phone number, which you can later access by [...]
This form of biometry is fairly straightforward. It basically tries to match various facial characteristics such as distance between eyes, width of nose, cheekbones, jaw line and chin characteristics to arrive at an identity match. Using the captured image, the biometric software makes certain calculations to arrive at the right angle for matching the photograph [...]
Hollywood filmmakers have a strange fascination for this form of biometry. This fascination probably stems from the fact that people understand much less about the eye than they do of hands and fingerprints. Besides, the technology looks pretty cool too. Now, though both these forms of biometry deal with the eye, iris and retinal scans [...]
Hands, by themselves, are not descriptive enough so as to result in positive identification. This form of biometry therefore, takes into consideration a combination of various factors such as size, shape, finger length and thickness, and other such details. Hand geometry as a biometry is usually used in places where fingerprinting could be considered intrusive. [...]
Scotland Yard made the science of fingerprinting famous in 1905, the year it started using it for crime detection. Ever since, fingerprinting has played a very important role in forensics. Today, due to its widespread acceptance, fingerprintscanning devices are one of the most common biometric devices available. In fact, even the registrar of Property Agreements [...]
Most Hollywood directors treat biometrics as a technology of the future. Top-secret laboratories are accessed via a retina scan, a fingerprint scan gives you access to classified information, and hi-tech cars are powered up using voice recognition. But really, is biometrics a future technology, or is it something that has been in existence since ages? [...]