Davenport University of Technology is paving the way for tech courses with their new degree program for Biometric Security. Students confident that biometrics are the security choice of the future might want to look into a degree majoring in the security method, which could eventually lead to a lucrative career. The industry has already shown huge growth prospective, increasing from a $300 million industry in 2001, to its current value at about $2 billion.

Fingerprint, retina, and facial scans have all become more integrated into our daily lives, including use in airports and theme parks , like Disney World. “Biometrics is the wave of the future. You’re seeing fingerprint scanners or readers on every device, from your laptops to your door entry,” says Scott Meuser, systems specialist for D/A Central Inc., a 50-year-old security company based in Detroit.

The only other degree program for biometric security studies is at West Virgina University, yet Davenport insists their course not only teaches how to create and engineer security systems, but the ethics behind them as well. — Andrew Dobrow

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If you’ve been weirded out by finger print scanning biometrics, then prepare to be even more unsure. Fujitsu announced its implementation of its PalmSecure Biometric Authentication System which reads the veins in your palm instead of finger prints. The PalmSecure went to work at the Hospital for Charged Particle Therapy at the National Institute of Radiological Studies (NIRS) near Tokyo, Japan.

Physicians and medics who are in need of a patient’s medical file are issued a smartcard implanted with an IC chip which holds a scan of the patient’s palm vein pattern. To unlock the information, a medic inserts the card into a card reader, and scans the patient’s hand on the palm reader. Fujitsu claims that the system is extremely reliable, with a false acceptance rate of less then 0.00008% and false rejection rate of 0.01%, adding that the complexity of palm veins makes it almost impossible to forge. — Andrew Dobrow

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These panties, specially made with a GPS locater built in, will track your lady everywhere she goes when shes wearing them, despite the fact that she is not aware she’s being followed. But listen to this. Not only is her location tracked, but her temperature and heart rate are tracked too! That is where the line of inquisitiveness stops, and the line of insane creepiness starts.

The Sensatech system works with three added objects other then the normal fabric. An embedded GPS, a normal watch battery, and a biometrics vitals reader strategically located near her holiest of holes. The data is transferred to your PC and mobile devices for easy access. This kind of paranoia only should exists in the movies.

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