From: | Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM> |
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Subject: | [OT] Real World SR: Iris-scanning technology |
Date: | Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:34:43 -0800 |
stuff, but this is a bit more public than that. The following text is out
of a small column in the Technology section of the Seattle Times/PI,
Sunday Edition. All copyrights... blah blah blah.
"Get cash in a wink; bank test iris-scanning ATM
Getting cash from a Citibank automatic-teller machine one day may seem
like a throwback to the movie "Mission: Impossible."
The Citicorp unit is testing a device that will require customers to
have one of their irises scanned before an ATM will spit out cash.
If the scan matches a digital image of the customer's iris on file with
the bank, the customer could continue to use the ATM.
Every human iris, which is a membrane in the eye that determines its
color, is unique.
The bank's Los Angeles lab also is tyoing with systems that identify
customers by their fingerprints or the sounds of their voices, hoping
one day to make bank cards and identification numbers obsolete.
With the iris scanner, New York-based Citibank is looking into a system
akin to a scene in the movie "Mission: Impossible," in which an
analyst is not allowed in to a top-secret computer room until his
eye is scanned by a laser-like beam.
Citibank's system isn't quite so dramatic. Instead of a sharp beam of
light, it is testing technology from Sensar of Moorestown, N.J., that
uses a camera to scan an iris from up to three feet away and check for
a match from its file of iris prints."
Any typos are mine, not the paper's. This is rather nifty so I thought
that I'd post it.
-Skye