Mapping veins as a human 'bar code'

**Jared Moya** · February 3rd, 2006, 08:14 AM

LOS ANGELES--In Memphis, Tenn., a small medical supply company called Luminetx has developed a new method of palm-reading that it hopes will rival fingerprinting or retinal scans as a way to perfectly identify individuals.

The technology is based on an infrared scan of the blood cells running through veins, which is then analyzed by a computer.

Luminetx originally developed the technique as a way to help doctors and nurses find veins in patients needing injections. But now, through a new division called Snowflake Technologies, the company is marketing it to banks, credit card companies and even homeland-security officials as a high-tech biometric identification tool.

"Our vein structures are completely different, especially when you look at the palm," said Luminetx Chief Executive Officer Jim Phillips, speaking at The Entertainment Gathering conference here Wednesday. "In a way, it's like looking at a bar code. We convert your veins to a bar code."

The drive for technology that can uniquely identify individuals has been given new urgency by the ongoing threat of terrorist attacks and the growing incidence of identity theft.

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**Potato** · February 3rd, 2006, 08:28 AM

I don't want my veins to be some bar code.

**nukehella** · February 3rd, 2006, 11:13 AM

A manly fugitive would mangle his own veins to avoid being identified.

**Theinfamousone** · February 3rd, 2006, 01:20 PM

I can already see a sequel to Minority Report.

**CrashPeer44** · February 3rd, 2006, 03:03 PM

OK NOW THEY HAVE GONE TOO FAR
"The drive for technology that can uniquely identify individuals has been given new urgency by the ongoing threat of terrorist attacks and the growing incidence of identity theft."

we HAVE TO OVERULE this GOV
They blind people with protection and scare them into agreeing

what the fuck

**Krell** · February 3rd, 2006, 06:38 PM

My veins are already my barcade, am I the only one that scans in and out of work each day? Besides multiple badges on a retractible thingy, i hand scan to access the areas I need to go, in a booth, that sniffs and weighs and says things I cant understand.

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**black_magiic** · February 3rd, 2006, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by CrashPeer44

OK NOW THEY HAVE GONE TOO FAR
"The drive for technology that can uniquely identify individuals has been given new urgency by the ongoing threat of terrorist attacks and the growing incidence of identity theft."

we HAVE TO OVERULE this GOV
They blind people with protection and scare them into agreeing

what the fuck

Get over yourself. It is a perfectly reasonable security method. In all reality it appears to be very secure too. Probably stronger than retinal and hand scanning. I'm thinking it would be hard to fake veins.

**CRLocky** · February 3rd, 2006, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Krell

My veins are already my barcade, am I the only one that scans in and out of work each day? Besides multiple badges on a retractible thingy, i hand scan to access the areas I need to go, in a booth, that sniffs and weighs and says things I cant understand.

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I kinda do the same thing... I have a badge, only one, because my badge rules all the other badge degrees at my work. I only need to go through an employee line medal detector, OR a door that my badge lets me through. I work at an airport. I DO however have to fingerscan to punch in.

**CrashPeer44** · February 3rd, 2006, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by black_magiic

Get over yourself. It is a perfectly reasonable security method. In all reality it appears to be very secure too. Probably stronger than retinal and hand scanning. I'm thinking it would be hard to fake veins.

ok well first it's scanning for barcode, next it is implanted chips, then it is radiowave mind control

**black_magiic** · February 3rd, 2006, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by CrashPeer44

ok well first it's scanning for barcode, next it is implanted chips, then it is radiowave mind control

Better get out your tinfoil hat.

**CrashPeer44** · February 3rd, 2006, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by black_magiic

Better get out your tinfoil hat.

lol well don't you think technology and all this "tracking" technology is really just going to be the Gov's way to blind people with protection?
Sure the pelgilum swings both ways but it takes hundreds of years to swing back and right now, this country might just be swinging to far.
I would not want to be SCANNED like a can of soup just to enter my own home, car, or even a store!

:icon_shak

**black_magiic** · February 3rd, 2006, 10:43 PM

I see this as a potentially strong security method. You could make something very hard to break into if the key is matched to your veins.

**mountain_rage** · February 4th, 2006, 02:06 AM

Quite frankly this system is needed for securing your identity and money. All identity theft could be prevented with this system. If you add it to mastercards you could prevent fraud in those departments as well. Only problem when someone mugs you it will cost you an arm and a leg.

**CrashPeer44** · February 4th, 2006, 06:35 AM

I understand that people would want this for protection against fraud but don't you think it would be abused and led to the point where we have to be scanned everywhere and all we do is logged...what's next sonething like Minority Report (I think some one said this before). Yes, it has been a great innovation by science, but why can't we go back to the time where people actually TRUSTED eachother and didn't think everyone was a criminal...