January 18th, 2007
iCache: The First Biometric Digital Wallet
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
How long have we been hearing about the digital wallet?
I know Bill gates was a mere millionaire back when I heard him spinning yarns, and yet here today is the iCache. Billed as the first biomertic digital wallet, this handy little device holds your credit card data, frequent flier numbers, and virtually anything with an magnetic strip on it for safe keeping. Your finger unlocks the card.
We Say: If you can brave the beyond-annoyong flash-based website, you’ll see a pretty cool idea coming to life at last. No word on pricing and the product is still in testing, but we’re intrigued. Too bad it looks like an iPod…you know some test user will demand music and photo capbility and we’ll all be waiting another three years for this.
Peter says:
Did they fix the “water bag” hack with this biometric wallet? Latent image reactivation tends to be a major problem with these biometric readers, it seems.
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/11/114/
is one of many websites talking about it.
January 18th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Kevin K. says:
What, Apple hasn’t sued them yet for using an “i” in the product name??!!?
January 18th, 2007 at 9:37 am
OffBeatMammal says:
this looks cool, but the site is very short on actual info
is the second card the thing you swipe after running it through a slot on the main unit? how easy to carry is it? how robust is it?
it would be cool if it could “clone” my work smartcard and included a RFID connector. Oh, and included a “password bank” for my PC
Despite the iName I don’t want/need another music player but a full service integrated security device… now I’d buy that for a dollar!
January 18th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
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