How biometrics work: Within the blink of an eye

Usually you see and then identify things. You can make out that a cup is a cup, a ball is a ball and that your friend Jay is Jay. You identify because you see.

But what if we flip this around? You see, so you are identified. What technology makes it possible that the same eyes that you use to identify things around you, are now used to identify you? That technology has been around for a while now. I’ll give you two in fact. Retina scan and iris scan.

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