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Sagem and Hitachi unveil multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sagem Sécurité and Hitachi, the engineering and information technology giant will unveil the first ever multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device at Biometrics 2009 in London, Finger VP.


Researchers produce 'neural fingerprint' of speech recognition

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Scientists from Maastricht University (Netherlands) have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said. With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques ...


Researchers give high marks to new technology for fingerprint identification

Researchers give high marks to new technology for fingerprint identification

Technology / Other

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Overworked crime scene investigators can take heart at the results of recent tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of new technologies that automate the manual portion of latent ...


Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests ... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world's two ...


Fingerprint analysis technique could be used to identify bombmakers

Chemistry /

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

University of Leicester experts have held discussions with military personnel in Afghanistan following the discovery of new technology to identify fingerprints on metal.


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Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity

Chemistry /

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Fingerprints can reveal critical evidence, as well as an identity, with the use of a new technology developed at Purdue University that detects trace amounts of explosives, drugs or other materials left behind ...


NIST shows on-card fingerprint match is secure, speedy

NIST shows on-card fingerprint match is secure, speedy

Technology / Other

created Apr 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A fingerprint identification technology for use in Personal Identification Verification (PIV) cards that offers improved protection from identity theft meets the standardized accuracy criteria for federal ...


New advance in revolutionary 'bullet fingerprinting' technique

New Advance in Revolutionary 'Bullet Fingerprinting' Technique

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 12, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Bullet fingerprinting' technology developed at the University of Leicester in collaboration with Northamptonshire Police is now being advanced in new ways.


New Fingerprint Breakthrough by Forensic Scientists

Chemistry /

created Jun 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (50) | comments 0

Forensic scientists at the University of Leicester, working with Northamptonshire Police, have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened.


UK fingerprint 'developer' can read a letter from its envelope

UK fingerprint 'developer' can read a letter from its envelope

Chemistry /

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (40) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UK scientists have discovered a fingerprint'“developer' which can highlight invisible prints on almost any surface – and read the text of a letter just from the envelope it was sent in.


Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (22) | comments 64

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to using climate models to assess the causes of the increased amount of moisture in the atmosphere, it doesn't much matter if one model is better than the other.


New study will make criminals sweat

New study will make criminals sweat

Chemistry /

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The inventor of a revolutionary new forensic fingerprinting technique claims criminals who eat processed foods are more likely to be discovered by police through their fingerprint sweat corroding ...


Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...


Researchers identify key mechanism that occurs at the inception point of many human lymphomas

Biology /

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have explained how certain key mutations occur in human lymphomas—a process that has, until now, remained a mystery.


Room's Ambience Fingerprinted By Phone

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Your smart phone may soon be able to know not only that you're at the mall, but whether you're in the jewelry store or the shoe store.