Biometrics: Increasingly popular

The upcoming credit card becomes an antique. In the United States, in Thrifway supermarket chains, customers pay for goods with . fingers.

Principles? Coordinate bank account numbers with fingerprints. Just putting your index finger on the reader is enough to pay the bill. Payments by fingerprints in France are new to the testing phase, but the goods distribution companies have paid attention. Biometerie has a future in France .

In the house or in the car

Fingerprint recognition lock. Biometrics are both reliable and convenient, which will make our daily life more convenient in the future. At home, fingerprint recognition has replaced the classic lock or has two key codes (lock Zalix, 850 euros).

In a car, fingerprint recognition is a type of anti-theft lock: in the case of "car-jacking-brraquaga" when a red light is on, the engine will stop for a while, if the owner not confirmed (lock Zalix6, 58 euros).

In the office, to avoid passwords, Hewlett-Packard, Sony and Sagem computer makers have designed computer models, personal assistants or computer-recognized mice. through the index finger fingerprint. Heikki Ailisto, a Finnish researcher, created a mobile phone that recognizes the person who keeps the device through gait.

At work

With mandatory security features, biometrics will have a good future in border locations. At Roissy Airport (Paris), for a period of 4 months, the Pégése system recognized voluntary passengers through biometric measurements, accelerating customs inspection.

If biometrics avoids waiting queues, it will pass the vote by universal vote for detecting false documents. Since 2006, French passports will comply with the common European standards, including a photo ID and digital fingerprint.

The first step towards biometric identification has passed, while waiting for the type of electronic ID with national insurance (Ines), which is biometric identification - expected to be released in 2007. .