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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the Mirrorshades dept.

Touting the technology as a replacement for IDs, part of your laptop's login, or able to let cops know if the person they just pulled over is dangerous, the first effective long-range iris scanner has been developed by Marios Savvides, a Carnegie Mellon engineering professor:

"Fingerprints, they require you to touch something. Iris, we can capture it at a distance, so we're making the whole user experience much less intrusive, much more comfortable," Savvides [said]. Unlike other scanners, which required someone to step up to a machine, his scanner can capture someone's iris and face as they walk by.

"There's no X-marks-the-spot. There's no place you have to stand. Anywhere between six and 12 meters, it will find you, it will zoom in and capture both irises and full face," he said.

Iris scanning currently works only at close range, so it requires a level of cooperation of the person being scanned:

"It requires a level of cooperation that makes it very overt—a person knows that you're taking a picture for this purpose,"...If it succeeds, long-distance scanning will change all that. Savvides says his team has secured a patent for his invention and will continue to work to make it easier and cheaper. He continues, too, to look for positive implementations of it.

Spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Friday May 15 2015, @01:38PM

    by sudo rm -rf (2357) on Friday May 15 2015, @01:38PM (#183329) Journal

    Solution: Don't let a single scientist work on it

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    "Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse, and von vas... assaulted! peanut." [50webs.com]

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