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Hitachi has just rolled out its thin client FLORA Se210 notebook PC with a finger vein recognition sensor, making good on the company’s promise earlier this year that it intends to drive further into the biometrics/security sector with PCs that lack hard drives.
The Se210 presses on with a finger-vein pattern reader that exposes the vein pattern via an LED light shone from a sensor mounted by the keyboard. Hitachi and Fujitsu in particular are pushing vein pattern recognition technology as more secure than fingerprint recognition.
For even more security, the vein pattern data is stored on a KeyMobile USB key, which itself requires a pin number.
There are two versions of the FLORA available; the Se210 version with the vein pattern reader will retail at ¥194,250, while the version without the reader costs ¥168,000.
Both run Win XP Embedded anf use Celeron 600MHz CPUs with 256Mb of DDR2 memory. There’s no HDD, of course. You’ll be looking at a 1024 dots x 768 dots (XGA) 12.1” LCD display and you’ll get connected via USB 2.0, Type2 PC card slot x 1, 802.11a/b/g, Gigabit Ethernet, or a 56K modem.
The body size is 275mm (W) x 233mm (D) x 30.7mm (H) and the whole package weighs in at 1.27kg.
(Via Hitachi [Japanese])
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