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To: David who wrote (13573)	5/19/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Rob C.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 26039

Let's have a contest to see where IDX closes on Friday.... My prediction is 7 3/4's...the prize is Randy's e-mail address. Regards, Rob

To: David who wrote (13573)	5/20/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

Who was at Comdex and what did a visitor think? "Exhibitors at the Biometric Pavilion, Booths C1320-C1230, have ways of getting the answer, based on scanning your fingerprints or your iris, or analyzing your voice or the geometry of your hand. "New products here include the Saf2000 from SafLink Inc., for $199 for ten users. Company president Jeff Anthony said the product could use voice, face, and fingerprint recognition. The second two require extra hardware, but nearly any PC today has a sound card and microphone, he noted. Users like to have a choice, he noted, pointing to doctors, who can't use fingerprints when wearing gloves, or face recognition when wearing masks. "Roger Ludwig of Digital Descriptor Systems was showing a finger scanner that recorded fingerprints in mid air, including the sides, without pressure distortions. Costing about $20,000, the unit is intended for police work. "Your baby blues are a big part of what makes you unique. David Johnston, director of business development at IriScan Inc, explained that the colored part of your eye is so unique that the odds against misidentification are one raised to the power of 78. An enrollment unit and a door scanner cost under $10,000. "SAC Technologies is showing a fingerprint scanner that had been used in the Bolivian census. Scott Olson, technical support manager, advised that an index finger with scars from too many paper cuts will be rejected by the enrollment software." ====================== From a ZDNet thread: "Biometrics, schmiometrics From: Patrick Burke Date: Wed May 19 09:17 CDT 1999 "I looked at biometric technologies last month at Comdex (Chicago), and I'm not worried about big brother, because none of them worked worth a damn. "It took MINUTES to get an iris reading, and NONE of the fingerprint devices was able to capture my print on the first try. One fingerprint vendor said his high-detail images took up 2 MB of space EACH. "I kept thinking, 'I could have entered dozens of passwords by now.' You would think that vendors would put their best foot forward at a trade show, but none of the things I saw impressed me. "Until they work better, we have nothing to worry about." =========================== So, SACM still has garbage. And, surprise, so does DDSI. NRID apparently hasn't found a partner with good core technology, either, from this report. IDX/IDT was not at this Comdex. I wonder about the 2 MB image -- it sounds like GDER's revolutionary contactless, analog machine that seems to work just like . . . a camera!