Biometrics Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Nuance's 'Nina' vocal assistant SDK may voiceprint users for authentication

by Mike Schramm (Aug 6th, 2012)

Nuance has introduced a brand-new voice interface for smartphones that it's calling Nina -- you can see it in action in a video just posted online. Nina is a mobile OS interface that's open to third-party developers, so it's essentially a Siri that any app developer (willing to read through the ...

Apple's biometric heartbeat patent: And the beat goes on

by David Winograd (May 6th, 2010)

The US Patent and Trademark Office has posted information about a really interesting patent that Apple applied for in January. Patent application 20100113950 describes a new technology that would bring a heart monitoring biometric security system to electronic devices. Biometrics are nothing new. ...

Smile for the camera: iFace recognition for iPhone

by Michael Rose (Sep 26th, 2008)

If you have to be subjected to surveillance, identification and security profiling, might as well have a shiny iPhone in the mix to make the erosion of your privacy rights that much easier to stomach. That's the scenario now that Animetrics' iPhone facial recognition product, iFace, is in limited ...

MacBook Pro with biometrics

by Scott McNulty (Jul 5th, 2006)

The first thing I do whenever I get new Apple gear is think to myself, 'How can I void the warranty?' Usually I just dunk the machine in a vat of butter milk, but edahc is a little more creative than I am (and handier with a dremmel it would seem). He installed a fingerprint scanner in his new ...

LaCie introduces biometric access drive

by Dave Caolo (Jun 21st, 2005)

Today LaCie introduced the Safe Mobile Hard Drive with fingerprint access. To gain access to the drive's contents, the user just swipes his/her finger across the incorporated scanner to unlock the drive's contents. The voodoo that allows this to work is embedded into the drive itself, so ...