Biometrics

Science

DARPA Sensors Will Track Your Heartbeat

8:20PM November 20, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Doesn’t matter if you’re a ninja or a polar bear blinking in a blizzard — if you’ve got a heartbeat, this new sensor system will find you. It’s called “Biometrics-at-a-distance” and does everything but smell your fear. More »


Science

Battlefield Biometric Scanning Keeps Perfect Record Of Millions

3:00AM July 15, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Distinguishing friend from foe has been one of the greater challenges through years of American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. But science fiction-worthy biometric scanning, the NYT reports, is changing the face of warfare, two irises at at ime. More »


Gadgets

Turn Your iPod Touch Into A Fingerprint Scanner

5:48AM May 20, 2011 | Casey Chan

I got my fingerprints done the other day (no, I wasn’t in trouble), and I was surprised at how stone-aged the whole process was. The FbF MobileOne actually smartens up fingerprintin’—it uses an iPod Touch to grab ‘em. More »


Science

CSI Bin Laden: Commandos Use Eye Scans To Track Terrorists

12:40AM May 4, 2011 | Spencer Ackerman - Wired

The US forces who killed Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound were more than expert marksmen. Some of them were forensics experts as well, using sophisticated tools to ensure that they got the right man. More »


News

Classified Technologies Helped Track Bin Laden In His Compound

3:21AM May 3, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The National Review has sources telling them that the Joint Special Operations Command used forensics training, biometric analysis and NSA/CIA resources to help commandos survey, locate and kill Osama Bin Laden inside his secret Pakistan compound. More »


Science

Portable DNA Scanner Coming Soon To An Airport Near You?

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4:55PM February 28, 2011 | Daniel Long

A portable DNA scanner no larger than a laser printer with the ability to give results in under an hour? Surely you jest. But, given US Homeland Security and their ever growing budget, ultra-fast DNA testing kits may soon find their way to airports in the coming months. More »


Geek Out

Paranoid About Theft? Try This Biometrically Secured Carbon Fibre Wallet

8:00AM January 29, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Maybe you’ve had your pocket picked a few times and are really paranoid about losing your wallet again. If so, this Dunhill Biometroc Wallet, complete with a biometric fingerprint reader, Bluetooth proximity sensor and carbon fibre frame, is for you. More »


Entertainment

Does Justin Bieber Stress You Out? These Heart-Rate-Monitoring Headphones Can Tell

4:40PM December 23, 2010 | Adrian Covert

Biometric devices and personal electronics have increasingly become intertwined over the years, but few have merged the two ideas as seamlessly as these headphones, which can also measure your heart rate. More »


Science

WikiLeaks Bombshell Reveals Strange Tech Snooping Schemes

2:40AM November 30, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Today’s not a good morning to wake up as an American diplomat. The weekend’s WikiLeaks disclosure of covert communications has revealed some strange tech plots surrounding world figures – Bluetooth bugs implanted in prisoners. DNA gathering. UN stalking. Weird stuff. More »


Science

New Jersey County Tracking Homeless With Biometrics

2:00PM October 29, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Bergen County in New Jersey had a problem. They needed to keep track of how often homeless people received services like food and shelter, but they didn’t have a reliable way of identifying them. So they’ve started scanning their fingerprints. More »