World’s First Library System Using Palm Vein Authentication Technology
Fujitsu Limited announced that it has been awarded a contract by Naka city in Ibaraki prefecture of Japan, to construct a system utilizing Fujitsu’s biometric palm vein authentication technology for the city’s new public library scheduled to open in October 2006. The library system is the world’s first of its kind.
Also interesting in this story is where this is being tested. Sounds like those wacky Japanese apparently have created a city from the ground up that will take everything learned about how not to build a city and do the opposite, plus be on the forefront of technology. Now why can’t the US, the supposed tech leaders of the world, do this? Say, isn’t New Orleans going to essentially rebuilt from the ground up?
Naka city was established on January 21, 2005 with the founding principle of creating harmony among nature, the culture of the region, its people and cutting-edge science. The city seeks to take advantage of the region’s strengths in cutting-edge technologies while respecting its cultural traditions as well as its natural beauty.
Betcha there are civil liberty concerns in this new “tech” city that would have you (John D.) and the rest of us in this forum up in arms.
The mainstream media seems to have moved away almost completely from New Orleans. I guess when there isn’t a 70 mile-per-hour wind blowing, it’s a media dead zone. Seriously though, the biggest improvements New Orleans could make right now is to campaign for funds to improve the levees citywide and put in place a new public transportation system (an expanded streetcar system for example) that would make sure that low-income families can hop on and ride to safety if this sort of event should ever happen again.