No, not bionic. Biometric. As in Microsoft’s Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader. Amazon is currently selling this package, which includes a keyboard and optical mouse, for $59 with free shipping. A $10 mail-in rebate brings the net price to $49. My co-author Carl Siechert tested this for a chapter in our upcoming revision to Windows Security Inside Out. It has some nice features, but I’d be more impressed if it could integrate with Roboform.
Anyway, if you’ve been lusting after one of these gadgets, this is about as good a price as you’ll get. Until someone comes out with a bargain-basement iris scanner, that is.
Darn that sucks.. I checked Amazon on sunday and it was $79.. so I ended up ordering the same one without the mouse or Fingerprint Reader from http://www.Newegg.com on Sunday.
Cancel the order and refuse delivery. You should be able to avoid a restocking charge even… Newegg is pretty good about this sort of thing.
I purchased one of the fingerprint readers around Christmas time. The one real drag about it is it only works in IE. Has anyone seen a plugin or extension for Firefox?