iTnews is reporting that IT services company, Unisys, located at the Uni of Canberra, in partnership with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and the University, have opened a new ‘Security Innovation Centre’ with the intention “to embrace technology that addresses peoples’ concerns about creating greater safety”.
Of the numerous biometric technologies being demonstrated at the centre it was the “Registered Traveller System – a technology which captures a person’s two irises, all 10 fingerprints and takes an image of the individual’s face – currently used in a number of United States airports” that caught my attention. So much for cutting of someone’s head or hand to get past those pesky security systems in those sci-fi films. Likewise I’d guess that the “vascular recognition vein capturing technology” would only be able to find a match if there was still fluid pumping through said system.