Saturday, February 04, 2006

Mapping veins as a human 'bar code'/CNET News.com, 1 Feb 2006

John Borlandhttp://news.com.com/Mapping+veins+as+a+human+bar+code/2100-1008_3-6034134.html?tag=nl
"A small medical supply company called Luminetx has developed a new method of palm-reading that it hopes will rival fingerprinting or retinal scans as a way to perfectly identify individuals. The technology is based on an infrared scan of the blood cells running through veins, which is then analyzed by a computer. " [Biometrics; Science]