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Re: Retina scanner?
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Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:20:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> Iris Recognition Camera: <http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5c7c/>
That's more like it. Though I'm not sure about the "most mathematically
unique biometric" bit. If it's so amazing, and it's obviously easy to
capture the image, why isn't it more widely used?
I remember reading about a UK school that introduced retina scanners for
building entry or library books or something. Come to think of it it was
probably just an iris scanner. It was a good indication of just how
ignorant and illiterate the media really are though that not one of them
came up with a headline gag about pupil recognition...
Jason Railton
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| (...) Indeed, the situation lens itself to goofy humours. Maybe the media thought that the pun was cornea than they could handle, and they were afraid to sclera 'way their readership, or perhaps that some reader might have retinal letter to the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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