The development of biometric technologies received a boost through the increased security measures that were both a direct consequence and a byproduct of the global "war on terror". However, the world has yet to see a non-security related application of biometric technology. We are helping to discover those applications and are presenting them here.
In the realm of search engines that might be offering a visual way of searching the web for images are www.riya.com and, since their recent (18. aug 2006) acquistion of Neven Vision, www.google.com. While riya seems to have headed into that direction for quite some time, google has woken up to the area of visual searching only recently, but since it is able to flex it's financial muscles, they will probably soon catch up.
We have recently discovered the worlds SAFEST internet dating site ! You can't cheat or fake your identity since they are using biometrics to compare your photos to that of other users ! isn't this going a bit far ? Also because most of the fun coming from dating sites is related to the fact that you can fake your identity at least a little bit (well, men usually do this, don't we ? to avoid our spouses to find out what we are doing online :-) and of course a fair proportion of the female dating world does it as well) and we are all interested in faking, age, weight & height, marital status ..... should i continue ? better not. So my point is this. The guys claiming to have developed the worlds most secure dating site have actually invented the worlds most boring dating site, because nobody will want to sign up ! (it's not even available in english yet) www.paarzeit.de However, since biometrics and face recognition are becoming normal to people who travel a lot to the US, the idea of using this for a dating site is somehow interesting. Let's see if they come up with an english version soon so that I can check out whether their face search really works ! Thats it for today.
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