Scientist of the soft stuff (The New Statesman)
When Isaac Newton looked at an apple, he saw an object that falls to earth because it is less massive than the planet. Athene Donald, professor of experimental physics at Cambridge University, sees a lump of foam in a green coat. Key Challenges and Issues facing the World Microscopes Market (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Laboratory equipment industry is available in its catalogue. You enter your home after the high-tech gizmo reads your fingerprints. In other words, you can never lock yourself out ... (The Virginia Gazette)
With this James Bond-like deadbolt, entry is gained after a fast fingerprint check. ( Christine Cotter, Los Angeles Times ) Will biometrics measure up to the future? (CNN)
Who could forget the scene from John Woo's 1993 B-movie "Hard Target," where an imprisoned Jean-Claude Van Damme burns the skin off his index finger, attaches it to an impromptu mechanical contraption and booby-traps it to hit the scanner at precisely the scheduled time each morning, so that his captors don't notice his escape? In An Ever More Dangerous World, Biometrics Becomes Important (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Governments and the private sector are spending more on biometrics, the use of a person's unique physical characteristics for identification. In An Ever More Dangerous World, Biometrics Becomes Important (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
People sometimes lie. Their fingerprints don't.
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