09/9  Your Fingertip is your Mobile Blog Address, Your Authentication and Your Mouse

Category: Mobile Life    By editor at 08:54
After Neo-Nomad's Tatoo, there is another way to connect body and mobile blog: use your fingerprint for (almost) everything:
  • Security - the most reliable and accurate form available. It excels in conveniently protecting personal images and data, as well as secure authentication for m-commerce and wireless banking.
  • Convenience - security and control at the touch of a finger. Touch controls make security practical, and make nearly any application easier to use.
  • Full navigation capabilities - similar to a joystick or scroll wheel. Easy navigation for gaming or map based location applications .
  • Personalization features such as multifinger speed dialing and buddy list controls.
Many carriers, such as Japan's NTT DoCoMo, are recognizing that current biometric sensors in place on a growing number of PDAs provide an excellent touch-pad surface, allowing the finger that authenticates to become a mouse, for optimal navigation.

"This is going to make a big difference for Web browsing on a phone as well -- and the technology is well on its way," said a spokeswoman for AuthenTec, an international technology developer for the mobile market.
Via Wireless World: Mobile-phone Web browsing

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