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Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo The Artificial Retina is a retinal prosthesis that can be used to treat age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa. The retinal implant receives a signal via wireless... [21 Aug 2009]
eEye Retina Network Security Scanner v5.10 & REM Security Management Console: Product Report on PCI Suitability
White Paper In Q3 of 2008, NSS Labs performed comprehensive testing of the eEye Retina Network Security Scanner v5.10 as a Vulnerability Assessment Scanner (VA) for internal use within payment card environments. This paper contains... [13 Jul 2009]
Schools get lessons on biometric tech
News Biometric tech can take the form of fingerprint, retina, iris pattern, voice and even face shape recognition. Schools have been offered guidance on how to implement biometric technology. The advice from the British... [25 Jul 2007]
Vision Express Builds the Future of Innovative, Patient-Based Eye Care on Low-Cost Virtual Grid Technology
White Paper Vision Express benefited from the scalability of Oracle Database 10g to manage all corporate data and patient records and capture and store more than four million retina images in a single repository. [30 Jun 2007]
Understanding CHAM - Common Hacking Attack Methods
White Paper eEye Digital Security incorporated its proprietary CHAM technology into Retina Network Security Scanner as a way to offer advanced vulnerability detection to those seeking to substantially challenge their network... [09 Jun 2006]
Secure network improves NHS diabetes care
Case Study The Suffolk West Primary Care Trust Diabetic Eye Screening Service (Dess) screens patients to see if changes are occurring to their eyes as a result of diabetes affecting the retina, providing essential information for... [11 Oct 2005]
Biometrics: Will Digital Fingerprints, Iris Scans and Speaker Recognition Soon Replace Passwords and Personal Identification Numbers?
White Paper Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker recognition. Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another. [15 Feb 2005]
Will ID cards contain DNA sample?
News Richard Barrington, head of government affairs and public policy at Sun Microsystems, said it would be "a long way off" but that the use of DNA would appear to resolve unreliability issues with retina and fingerprint scans. [27 Nov 2003]
Microsoft goes with plug-and-play biometrics
News Fingerprint, facial-feature, retina and handprint recognition are all common forms of biometric technology, but for PC sign-on applications, fingerprint recognition is by far the most popular. AuthenTec, a maker of... [29 Apr 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The cyborgs are here
Comment An artificial retina implant has given very poor resolution sight to a few previously unable to see. All sorts of health conditions are prompting ever more sci-fi-like solutions - and Peter Cochrane believes it won't be... [02 Apr 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Who goes there?
Comment We have the technology to recognise the human face, hands, fingers, body, voice, lips, and various parts of the eye including retina and iris. How about managing both these things? Peter Cochrane sets out his stall. [24 Oct 2002]
Miracle chip restores sight to the blind
News Aimed at those suffering from macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, where the light-sensitive cells on the retina stop working but the nerves survive, the project is a $9m collaboration between US national... [18 Sep 2002]
Data centre employs James Bond-style security
News The Internet Data Centre (IDC) opens today in Slough, and has employed a range of technology from humble CCTV systems and infra-red motion detectors right through to high-tech retina scanners. IDC claims its data centre... [19 Jan 2001]
Diebold eyes up ATM future
News Diebold Incorporated, a leading manufacturer of ATMs (automated teller machines), has developed a commercial ATM machine which identifies customers using a retina scan. The retina scan machine will be on... [08 Mar 1999]
Chip implant helps blind man see
News Harold Churchey, 71, saw his first images in over a decade when doctors at the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore inserted a 2mm chip over his damaged retina. A microchip implant has enabled a blind man to see for the... [05 Nov 1998]
