Monday March 15, 2010

Nose Scanners - The New Face of Biometrics?

As if fingerprinting, DNA swabs, eyeball scans and imbedded microchips aren’t bad enough, we now we have…wait for it, wait for it…nose scanners.

Scientists at the university used a photographic system called PhotoFace, developed by researchers at the University of the West of England Bristol and Imperial College London - shown here - to scan the shape of volunteers' noses, and developed computer software to analyze the results.

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