Cross Fujitsu's palm with silver and you'll get a biometric scanner — pictured in our CeBIT 2005 gallery — that identifies people by looking at the veins in the hands. The infrared scanner ...

Biometric cards are a mashup of fingerprint scanners – similar to those that unlock and prove identity on smartphones – and technology used in chip and pin bank cards.

We chat with CrucialTec at Mobile World Congress about its innovative fingerprint security scanner, which will debut later this year.

TSA will formally begin the TWIC biometric reader evaluations on July 21 with completion expected by January 2009.

Tampa International Airport plans to spend $1 million on biometric face scanners. The new technology will be used on passengers boarding outbound international flights.