Rehoboth Tech’s Flash Drive Uses Iris Recognition
If you’ve got some top secret files saved on your thumb drive, then maybe Rehoboth Tech’s Irikon drive is the safest bet for you. Classed as the world’s first Iris scanning thumb drive, the Irikon can store upto 20 different eyes as authorized users, and comes in sizes ranging from 1GB to 4GB.
That kind of storage is way less, considering that we have a 64GB thumb drive somewhere out there too, but secure drives are generally smaller in size. The Rehoboth site is a little vague as to how the scan works, but with a rechargeable battery built in, as well as a 6cm scan range, am guessing you give the drive a look at your eyes before you plug it into the port. It would be really awkward to lean down to have it scan your eyes.
Right now, it doesn’t look like Rehoboth Tech’s drive is available. And since Rehoboth is headquartered in South Korea, we might have to wait a bit. Until then, there’s always fingerprint-reading USB drives, though iris scans are supposed to be faster in general. The Irikon recognizes eyes as valid or unauthorized in under two seconds.
Nastasshea@Nesh said,
Wrote on July 5, 2007 @ 04:19
Wow looks really good!! I want one of those!
Hamza said,
Wrote on July 7, 2007 @ 20:25
yeah.. i’d love to have one of those too