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  • Hitachi's scans your main vein

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast 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

    Thursday, November 1st, 2007

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    And by main vein I mean the veins in your fingers. Like Fujitsu’s vein-scanning mouse, this biometric security system released by Hitachi at the Tokyo Motor Show will keep your car from starting up until you whip it out — ideally your ring finger — and slap it against the steering wheel.

    Different functions can also be assigned to each finger meaning it can double as a switch – one finger could control the set-up (seat, side mirror position, air-conditioning etc.) for the recognized while the other could be used for control of navigation or audio systems – all the while leaving the driver’s eyes on the road and their hands in a fixed position on the wheel.

    Wow. It’s amazing how much your vein can do when you push it, push it, push the envelope real good.

    Hitachi’s biometric steering wheel technology [Gizmag]

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