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...imperceptible pulse of energy that makes the film oscillate. The resulting ultrasound image is captured as a digital image file called a biometric identifier, which is a physical feature that has been measured and converted into computer language so it can be compared against a database. If his print matches, the credit-card charge goes through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...Mexican borders. The remaining 100 or so land-crossing points must be covered by the end of 2005. This year the State Department's 211 consular offices must be able to fingerprint all visa applicants and embed all U.S. visas with a bar code containing the traveler's digitized print, photo and biographical information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...digital database that could be searched by computer. The Cross Match founders spotted an empty niche for light, rugged, relatively inexpensive live-scan fingerprint machines. Borrowing $250,000 from relatives and friends, they came up with a 23-lb., $10,000 optical scanner that produced high-resolution, forensic-quality print images. It could fit in a backpack, and its calibration was not thrown off by jarring from a squad car or humvee. In 1997 the three partners brought in Ted Johnson, a retired Paine Webber executive, to be CEO and chief fund raiser. "They really took the industry by storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...year Comic-Con gets further from its roots, as Hollywood brings more product for fans' appraisal. This year NBC had a panel and booth for The Office, which, while certainly a show with an alpha fan base, isn't really genre fare. Maybe Dunder Mifflin paper was used to print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comic-Con: And the Winner Is ... | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

...Pearl Jam's first album is a song called Release, for which no lyrics are given, perhaps because the subject matter is too painful for Vedder to see in print. It captures the feeling of embracing the past, with all its hurt and controversy, and setting out on a new course. "I'll ride the wave/ Where it takes me," Vedder sings, imagining he is singing to his lost father, dreaming that he is uniquely himself but still somehow an amalgam of his father and his past. "I'll hold the pain/ Release me." It's a healthy attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK'S ANXIOUS REBELS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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