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Re: Finger print readers


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Finger print readers
  • From: Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:54:55 +1200
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patrickl@xxxxxxx wrote:

> by Harriet Arkell
>
> The security system, imported by the Candy brothers from the Far
> East, works using a tiny camera sensor built into a specially-
> designed electronic door handle. As you stand at the door you wait
> for the disembodied American voice to bark: "Place your user
finger
> on the sensor."
>
> You do as you're told, wait while a light flashes, and then the voice
> utters the magic words: "The door is open."

Just saw this on the news here.. The thing on the door looked like a
cheap prop off a secondrate sci-fi movie, and the voice in it sounded
like one of the toy cellphones from the $2 shop (I guess that would be
the 60-70p shop over there)

Long way to go before I would put one of those on my door!



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