Straight out of a Bond movie, Seiko Epson is all set to commercialize the smallest fingerprint sensor for securing all those handheld gadgets. The 0.2 mm thick sensor reads the fingerprint patterns due to the mild electric current from the fingers.
The small size of the sensor would help furthering its use in the field of portable gadgets like MP3 players, cellphones, palmtops etc. Also it could find a big untapped market in self-authenticating credit cards which are being dubbed as the next generation of credit cards “in which a tiny on-card processor is used to compare the captured fingerprint data with the user’s fingerprint data stored in an embedded memory. A non-matching fingerprint would render the card unusable, preventing abuse in the case of loss or theft.”
The commercialization drive is being aimed for 2010.
Via: Gizmodo
Ultra-thin Fingerprint Sensor
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