Have you ever forgotten your PIN number when attempting to withdraw cash from a bank ATM? If so, you are a target user for fingerprint identification systems.
Seiichi Takaishi uses such a device to log on to his personal computer at a Tokyo office of Technoimagia Co., a fingerprint ID system designer.
Within a second of placing his middle finger on an authentication machine, his fingerprint is recognized out of some 10,000 stored in the system and he is granted access to his terminal.