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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the will-clean-your-jewelry-too dept.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets in the phone industry: Samsung is hoping to eventually sell you a phone with a fingerprint sensor that lives underneath the screen.

But how? Well, a pair of reports out of China and Korea suggest that sucker might be ultrasonic -- firing high-frequency acoustic waves through the glass that capture your fingerprint without fear of being defeated by dirt or grease.

Might be fun to hack the sensor to do other things.


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