Biometric scanners - no longer science fiction
September 25th, 2008 | by admin |In lots of movies we’ve seen biometric scanner technology used to control access to buildings, apartments, doors on spaceships, computers, cars, and more. This is no longer just in the movies - many companies are using biometric security to secure access to sensitive areas of their company and computer systems. A common biometric security device in movies is the biometric retina scanner - these really do exist. You step up to the scanner, place your eye within range of the scanning opening, and it scans your retina. Then it matches the pattern it finds in your eye with a pattern stored on a computer - if they match, it gives you access. This would not necessarily be great for a laptop or desktop computer, but it can be useful to control access to doors and buildings.
