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Software
Future iPhone Patents Show Fingerprint ID For Different Gestures
8:54AM Jason Chen | MacRumors found three interesting patents that point to various new interaction techniques. The most interesting is the fingerprint ID directly on the screen so that the iPhone can see which finger you’re using and accept gestures appropriately. More »
Random Stuff
Cancer Meds Wiped Off Man’s Fingerprints
9:20AM Adam Frucci | A 62-year-old tourist was trying to enter the United States when he was stopped at customs to have his fingerprints scanned. This was a problem for both him and the customs agents, for he had no fingerprints. More »
Toys
Wild Planet Pocket Forensics Kit Sorts Out Any Playroom Crime Scene
7:40AM John Mahoney | Now when junior complains that one of the evil neighbourhood kids has stolen his favourite toy, hand him this Lil’ CSI kit, complete with UV light, and get him dusting for prints. More »
Gadgets
Million Dollar Border Security Machines Fooled with Ten Cent Tape
4:00AM Jesus Diaz | So much for biometrics and immigration security: A South Korean woman managed to fool a million-dollar fingerprint reading machine in Japanese border controls using a simple piece of tape stuck to her fingers. More »
Weapons
Fingerprinting a Bullet the Bond Way
4:00AM Sean Fallon | Well, the John Bond way that is. Bond, the head of forensics at the Northamptonshire Police in the UK, has devised a way to fingerprint bullets with electricity. More »
GPS
Medion’s New GPSs Are Really Secure, Need Your Fingerprints to Navigate
4:45AM Kit Eaton | Medion’s new GoPal GPS units have an unusual extra feature intended as a deterrant for thieves: fingerprint scanners. The GoPal X5535, P5235 and P5435 all have a tiny scanner and will only work when they recognise one of five stored prints, making them useless if stolen. They’ve all got 5-inch screens, though the P5235 has voice control, the P5435 has Bluetooth and the X5535 has a gyrometer so it can compensate for brief losses of GPS signal by detecting car movements—all three get live traffic updates with Traffic Message Channel. Pretty neat, though leaving your GPS in your car is likely to tempt some thieves to break in, no matter how secure the device itself is. Out in Europe at the moment, no pricing info is available. [Electronista] More »
Cameras
Digital Photos Act as Unique Fingerprints in Finding Criminals with Digital Cameras
11:33AM Gizmodo US Edition | Forensic specialists can now pinpoint the exact make and model of a camera simply by analysing the pixels in digital photos. This technique would be useful in the future for tracking down criminals, such as kidnappers who’ve leaked photos of their hostages to the media. Read on to find out how it works. More »
Screens
Know-It-All LCD Panel Can Scan Fingerprints, Sense Light
7:42PM John Herrman | The fundamental proposition of consumer technology is as follows: the closer we are to using the gadgets featured in the last 10 years of crappy spy thrillers and action movies, the more progress we’ve made. That’s how the Surface came to be, and how we’ve ended up with the fingerprint-grabbing, light-sensing LCD panel. AU Optronics has developed systems that can handle both without interfering with a panel’s display capabilities. While this tech is not likely to quickly replace the dirt-cheap light sensors that manage screen brightness now, LCD fingerprinting could add an interesting security layer for increasingly common touchscreen devices, among other things. [Tech-On via Gearlog] More »
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