The Guardian seems to think that the new iPhone will have fingerprint recognition technology.
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Apple showed on Friday that it wants to improve security on its devices, agreeing to buy AuthenTec, a maker of fingerprint recognition technology.
Odds are if Apple does introduce an iPhone model that includes fingerprint recognition technology either as a general security function, for mobile payment safety or both, others will follow suit.
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Unless you think that fingerprint recognition is such?
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Think fingerprint recognition, but better.
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For now, the researchers have created an eight-electrode proof-of-concept bracelet, but its accuracy leaves something to be desired -- it correctly identifies its wearer only 80 to 90 percent of the time, whereas fingerprint recognition has a failure rate of less than 1 in 1, 000.
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In contrast, the fingerprint-recognition system being used in some American shops, called Pay By Touch, appears to be more convenient but less secure, since shoppers are no longer required to present a bank card or cheque to buy things.
Trials in the UK last year identified a high level of failure in the registration and verification of iris, fingerprint and facial recognition among a pool of 10, 000 British citizens.
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Fingerprint and iris-recognition technology have significant error rates, too.
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In fact, it is an almost certainty that within the next few years, three biometric options will become standard features in every new phone: a fingerprint scanner built into the screen, facial recognition powered by high-definition cameras, and voice recognition based off a large collection of your vocal samples.
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The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.
The overall distribution of these readings can be converted into an image of the fingerprint that is accurate enough to identify who left it with standard recognition software.
Accessories that can add a fingerprint scanner to your current phone have proven to be popular, and voice recognition is now available through many different services.
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In the case of Facebook facial recognition, the company is now using billions of photos people have uploaded to build a facial fingerprint database.
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