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 »
A new report out of the US National Research Council asks that you leave the severed fingers and popped out eyeballs at home when trying to fool biometric scanners. More »
Nervous System’s Reaction Lamp was created using a 3D printing technique on nylon plastic called Selective Laser Sintering. By varying the material thickness, they achieved this intricate, fingerprint-like effect. [Nervous System via Make Blog]
Don’t get me wrong, I love working from home for Gizmodo – working from bed, in the garden, in my underwear…it’s a never-ending buffet of luxury. But I do miss abusing an office photocopier/printer/fax-machine. As well as the interns. More »
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For those people who still have trouble figuring out which way to slide George into the vending machine, a prototype from Hitachi makes things a little simpler: it identifies caffeine fiends by reading the pulse in their fingertips. More »
