Fingerprints inside the body: the Palm Vein Scan
Aside from DNA, fingerprints, and retinas, the body has countless other ways for people to verify their identities. One piece of technology scans the veins of your palm. It’s simple, but very effective, and will soon be introduced in the US for any student who wants to attend business school. Guess you have to review for that exam after all, huh. Details in the full article.
As any spy film – and maybe some CSI episodes as well – will tell us, fingerprints are easily stolen. I’d like to see how people will get to find a way around this identity verification tech though. Called a Palm Vein Scan, this tech from Fujitsu scans the blood pumping from the veins of your palm. It’s essentially a fingerprint inside the body.
Each person has a different setup of veins in the body. and it’d be pretty hard to fake palm veins. First of all, you don’t leave your palm vein marks everytime you grab anything with a smooth surface, and the palm scanner checks for veins that are alive, and full of pumping blood (so don’t think of chopping off someone’s hand just to fool the scanner).
The tech has been used in Japanese automated teller machines for more than five years now, and will soon be introduced in the US by the Graduate Management Admission Council. Students who want to attend business school will be required to take the Palm Scan to verify their identity, to make sure there won’t be any proxy test takers.
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