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2015-03-04
here's the problem the fingerprint scanner on your smartphone might actually be easy to spoon I've got skazala court for cnet here at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona and beacon c is the company that thinks it has a solution to capacitive sensor that might be on your smartphone's fingerprint scanner can only capture 500 pixels to read your fingerprint that isn't very accurate and it's nothing that the government would actually use during immigration so this company vacancy has come up with a demo of a device that uses the same powerful optics that the government does but in a much smaller form factor that will fit phones to give you a very short demonstration I will put my finger on the sensor which will collect the information at two thousand pixels much much more than your phone and it goes right down to the sweat pours my finger can be clean or dirty or wet or completely dry and it will work there are no commercial products with this chip yet but there are plenty of patents in place and it is something that we could see in smartphones and tablets coming up soon I've got to get all court for CNN you can find out much more about this product and others from over world congress internet com you
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