...device uses a built-in fingerprint recognition system instead of a key to work the lock.
So householders only have to touch the BioKnob to get into their home, rather than have to search their pockets for a key.
A tiny sensor reads a fingerprint pattern when you brush a finger across it and the pattern is converted in to a template.
No picture of fingerprints are recorded, so no one can replicate them from the data.
The doorknob, which costs £255 and runs off rechargeable batteries, is also able to keep a record of the last 1000 entries.
That means parents can tell what time their kids come home.
And boss will be able to keep tabs on their workers' timekeeping.
The BioKnob was developed by US firm Tychi Systems.
President Sheng Deng said: "We wanted to bring technologies mostly seen in government agencies to consumers."
url | Daily Record UK
~This news item makes me want to get myself a expensive pair of gloves. I don't like thinking about the fingerprints I leave on everything I touch and corporations like Tychi Systems interest in them.
Posted by Stubbornson at December 31, 2006 01:49 PM