A non-contact fingerprint scanner that can read your prints from 6' away

[thewayne]

Relatively speaking, it's a pretty simple device. It contains two cameras and emits polarized light, one camera picks up the vertically polarized light, the other horizontal. A computer merges them and produces almost a perfect print.

In less than a second.

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=27052

Also in the article: Carnegie-Melon Labs is being funded to develop an iris scanner that can identify an iris at EIGHTEEN METERS.

How soon until it's a crime to wear gloves and polarized glasses or contacts?