Bar code specialist, Welch Allyn has conducted research into the accuracy of bar code scanners by putting 12 scanners from four different vendors through stringent testing. Dale-Lace would not divulge which rival scanners were tested, but added...
John Blair, vice-president of marketing and engineering at scanner manufacturer, Visioneer, said: "Scanners in printers are like two-day-old bread. This is often fine for the small office/home office market, which as Peter Taylor, Hewlett-Packard's...
But at the World Cup even guys using film will have time to take their pictures, leave the ground, go for a meal and a few drinks, develop the pictures, scan them in and send them back. Think Mexico '86 and you see the infamous 'hand of God' as...
But while bar codes are passive many will see RFID tags as a great threat, a challenge to our civil liberties. Fast forward 10 years and assume bar codes have been replaced by embedded RFID tags. We arrive at the airport to have our face, eye, hand...
David Taylor, technology consultant at Barclaycard, who has worked closely on biometric ID verification systems, said trials with fingerprint biometrics had proved too unreliable, while the more accurate iris-scanning faces strong public...
You can simply hand these to the taxi driver so even your mispronunciation of the destination address can't prejudice your arrival. Keep a spare credit card somewhere secure, away from your wallet, in case the wallet gets stolen.