Excerpted from a NewsBytes article with the headline "Consumer Apps For Electronic Fingerprint Reader": The Microreader can take an analog picture of a finger, convert the analog picture into a digital code, and store that code for matching. [...] the Microreader is being miniaturized and the price is being reduced from $1,500 to "substantially less than $100." The article lists a bunch of possible applications involving verification of identity and access control, incorporation in keyboards and cellular telephones to secure them, etc. It does not mention any time frame for when this device would actually hit the market or when the price would drop to that $100 figure, so take it all with a grain of salt. -- sidney markowitz <sidney@apple.com>