• Hands on with Fujitsu's vein-scanning mouse

    Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

    Biggs is the East Cost Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    This is totally gross. I was walking by the Fujitsu booth when I saw the vein-scanning PalmSecure mouse that uses the veins in your hand to log you into a PC. I figured it wouldn’t look that bad — like a fingerprint at worst — so I asked the guy to run the demo for me. He placed his hand over the mouse for a few seconds and then his vein scan popped up…



    Worms, Roxanne! Worms!

    It looked like worms. Like really squirmy worms inside his hand. Seriously: if someone made me use this system at work, I’d refuse. There is no way I’m greeting my day with a picture of the veins inside my carpal-tunnel-twisted hand.

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