Get your own biometric desktop

No, not bionic. Biometric. As in Microsoft’s Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader. Amazon is currently selling this package, which includes a keyboard and optical mouse, for $59 with free shipping. A $10 mail-in rebate brings the net price to $49. My co-author Carl Siechert tested this for a chapter in our upcoming revision to Windows Security Inside Out. It has some nice features, but I’d be more impressed if it could integrate with Roboform.

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Anyway, if you’ve been lusting after one of these gadgets, this is about as good a price as you’ll get. Until someone comes out with a bargain-basement iris scanner, that is.

3 thoughts on “Get your own biometric desktop

  1. Cancel the order and refuse delivery. You should be able to avoid a restocking charge even… Newegg is pretty good about this sort of thing.

  2. I purchased one of the fingerprint readers around Christmas time. The one real drag about it is it only works in IE. Has anyone seen a plugin or extension for Firefox?

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