By Declan McCullagh, 22 October 2004 10:25
NEWS
A new memory stick on sale next week turns fingerprints into passwords. Lexar Media's JumpDrive TouchGuard uses a sensor that reads the miniscule ridges on a finger, and unlocks the encrypted data on the USB memory stick if there's a match.
"It's going to be in Best Buy [one of the largest chains of US consumer electronics shops] stores starting Monday," Christopher Crump, a project manager at Cogent Systems, said Thursday. Cogent wrote the software. Fujitsu makes the finger-scanning chip for the TouchGuard stick, which was demonstrated at a technology conference this week. Sony already sells a similar product called Micro Vault.
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1. Darrall Pullen
This is hardly new technology. Get with the times. TREK have been shipping the TumbDrive Touch for ages and has much similar principals to data protecting the USB stick.
2. Ruprecht
Darren, similar but not the SAME...well done you for being 'with it' before the rest of us!
I'm planning to get my mate in the US to pop by Best Buy before his next trip home so's I can try one out.
Thanks for the heads up Silicon
;o)
3. anonymous
Will it work on Linux?