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  2. Biometric device - Wikipedia

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    However, unlike displays with 2 dimensional pixel arrays, this technology incorporates pixel stacks, accomplishing a series of goals leading to the capture of a multi-biometric. It is believed to be the first man-made device which can capture 2 or more distinct biometrics from the same region of pixel stacks (forming a surface) at the same ...

  3. Hand geometry - Wikipedia

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    Viable hand geometry devices have been manufactured since the early 1970s, making hand geometry the first biometric to find widespread computerized use. [4] Robert Miller realized the distinctive features of hand sizes and shapes could be used for identification and patented the first automated hand geometry device at the Stanford Research Institute in 1971.

  4. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    On December 20, 2013, he was honored with an interactive Google Doodle commemorating the "100th anniversary of the first crossword puzzle" [8] [9] [10] with a puzzle by Merl Reagle. Numerous other constructors also created tribute puzzles to Wynne to commemorate the anniversary.

  5. Biometrics - Wikipedia

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    The first fingerprint-based cancelable biometric system was designed and developed by Tulyakov et al. [60] Essentially, cancelable biometrics perform a distortion of the biometric image or features before matching. The variability in the distortion parameters provides the cancelable nature of the scheme.

  6. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    The first wireless remote control for a television US-based Zenith consists of a better flashlight, with which one lights up in one of the four devices corners to turn the unit on or off, change the channel or mute the sound. 1956 The company Metz introduces radio device type 409 / 3D. First mass production of printed circuit boards. This ...

  7. A major archaeological discovery was made in Florida. Was it ...

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    The discovery, they say, may be the most significant in a series of archaeological finds made at the mouth of the Miami River in the past 25 years that include the Miami Circle National Historic ...

  8. Fingerprint scanner - Wikipedia

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    Fingerprint scanners are security systems of biometrics. They are used in police stations, [1] security industries, smartphones, [2] and other mobile devices. [3] [4]

  9. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russia – first fully gas turbine main battle tank ; Josef Popper (1838–1921), Austria – discovered the transmission of power by electricity. Aleksandr Porokhovschikov (1892–1941), Russia – Vezdekhod (the first prototype tank, or tankette, and the first caterpillar amphibious ATV)