14 DAY TRIAL // Fingerprint sensors aren't exactly a novelty anymore. Handheld devices like the iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S5 are taking advantage of this technology, but bigger machines have been known to adopt the same safety precautions.
Laptops with fingerprint sensor have been around for some time, but the trend doesn't seem to pick up in this department, especially since after a while, the sensors stop working altogether.
Taking notice of this issue, Fujitsu is planning to introduce a new type of biometric security to its lines of laptops, a system we have been detailing before.
Fujitsu is sitting on an interesting kind of technology, which allows the veins in your palms to be scanned, in order to grant device authentication (via Engadget). Users just have to hoover their palm in the vicinity of the sensor to be granted access, so there’s no actual touching involved.
And now for the funny part, the system requires the user to have a “live” hand, so the creepy horror movie trick, in which you cut off somebody’s hand to gain access in a prohibited area, won’t get you far with Fujitsu.
The company claims, the technology is far safer than the conventional biometric method. For the moment, Fujitsu is trying to implement the tech to its business laptops line and into a corporate line of tablets designed for bank employees working with sensitive information. Do you think palm-vein technology could become a standard in future laptops?