The Fingerprint Slide Scanner is an $80 device that both gathers and stores your (or anyone else’s) fingerprints. Once it’s memorized your prints, the Fingerprint Slide Scanner can be placed into query mode: your stored fingerprint is matched against a valid swipe and a unique ID number is spit out of the scanner through a TTL output. But that’s only half of the excitement. When this TTL output is coupled with a suitable Bluetooth modem, the resultant fingerprint ID number can be sent wirelessly to an awaiting PC. Mix in a pinch of batch programming to this recipe and you have a PC feast that can be lorded over by your, and only your, fingerprints. Make this scanner-plus-modem combination portable and carry it with you around the house. Lock the keyboard and throw away the mouse: you are the master of all that you can touch, at least with your ten fingerprints. Maybe throw in some toes, too.
