appleinsider.com - 7/2/2009
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Filings from Apple over the past two years reveal that the company is constantly looking to improve upon the ways in which customers interact with its multi-touch devices, the latest of which proposes methods for controlling iPods and iPhones by detecting and using a user's fingerprints.
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Fingerprints on iPhones May Become Useful
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... ), exposed by AppleInsider , that shows fingerprint signatures being used to trigger certain events. Instead of relying on gestures to evoke certain actions, like skipping ahead in a playlist, a fingerprint sensor could trigger the same thing when touched by a certain person in a certain place. Potentially, this could open the door for user identification technology similar to the fingerprint sensors on PCs that we have all made fun of at some point (and remapped to our own fingers), that allow you to bypass password entry with a swipe of your finger. That said, Apple could ...
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