Fingerprint Scanners
Microsoft has announced new fingerprint scanners that will work with Windows XP. Once set up and configured, the software/hardware combination will allow to control all of your password access by having the computer read your fingerprint. Once your identity is established, it will automatically log you in to your computer, password-protected applications and websites.
MSNBC has a review of the product. It sounds like there are a few caveats to considering its use (no big surprise here), but hopefully in the not-too-distant future we’ll be able to have a simple, quick login process that just requires placing a finger on a reader. Of course, in schools that will mean keeping a ready supply of hand wipes to clean the grubby little fingers first.