Motswana invents fingerprint device (Daily News)

GABORONE - Worldwide Technologies, a company owned by Pule Mmolotsi, has brought a new dimension to cellphones security.
Mmolotsi has invented a fingerprint authentication device that can be used as a pin or access code.
He said in an interview in Gaborone this week that people should no longer worry about their telephone codes being stolen or others reading their private files in case of shared computers.
With the new system, the phone will be in a sleeping mode. One has to put in his or her code and he can verify that he or she is the authentic owner of that code by placing a fingerprint in a sensor on the device and then the dialing tone will automatically come on. [More..]