biometrics

Eikon Digital Privacy Manager (USB fingerprint reader) - works with Firefox, Windows Vista, and now Mac
$49.99
You people are business noobs. What idiot is going to pay for software that should be included to operate the hardware at optimum performance.

I bought from another company that DOES include software.


Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Gunvault Microvault Biometric Pistol Gun Safe
$215.95
If you swipe your finger totally horizontally, it opens every time. Plenty well made. Much better than pushing buttons I think. Can't comment on battery life after only 6 weeks or so.

Transcend JetFlash 220 - 8 GB Biometric USB 2.0 Flash Drive TS8GJF220 (Ruby Red)
$54.99
The security features are questionable. Half the time or more, it just lets me get at everything without needing the fingerprint or security code. Fingerprint reader only works sometimes. Just get a normal flash drive and create a 16 character password.
Over priced, semi-functional.

Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation
$89.95
This is primarily an algorithms book, though perhaps the authors might resist such a characterisation. By this I mean that there are detailed descriptions of how various biometric systems do pattern matching. These vary from iris recognition systems to fingerprint matching systems and face recognition methods.

The iris and fingerprint methods seem well established. Certainly, fingerprint matching is now a mature discipline. Where automated methods not only speed up searching of millions of fingerprints, but they also remove a lot of subjectivity.

Face recognition is still a work in progress. Much harder. The idea of a "face space" arises - the set of all possible images of faces. Where these might be three dimensional. Though much effort is expended on two dimensional images, since these are what the vast majority of cameras produce.

Considerable space is devoted to testing the above methods. Important in order to assess efficacy of new methods and to measure any progress in these fields.