The first news out of CES on biometric technology is Bionopoly’s USB flash drive. The drive includes a fingerprint sensor that is OS-independent. This makes for an ideal portable biometric security tool. There are other fingerprint flash drives out there from Sony and Lexar, but apparently they are software dependent.
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