Two years ago l fell in love with a Biometric product. I walked by a booth on the 3rd day of the ASIS show and stopped to watch as individuals enrolled into the system as fast as I have ever seen any Biometric system enroll a person. As fast as the individual enrolled they could stand at the appropriate distance and a second or so later they received a green signal to proceed. I was pleased by the performance and tried the system a few times to be sure that what I had witnessed was real. Well it turned out to be AOptix Technologies, a Campbell, Calif.-based iris innovator, who launched their first “iris at a distance” product, the InSight VM, early in 2009. I liked the company and product so much I introduced them to Brian Tuskan, Sr...

Amazon wants to film the packaging and preparation of your goods as they get ready to ship out in order to make sure your order is properly fulfilled and addressed. Stills or the whole video are then forwarded along to you, so you can review them. Granted a couple of weeks ago, the patent for this oh-so-complex monitoring system was actually quite specific as it only operates if your order includes "at least one book, food item, bottle of wine, flowers, or jewelry," so it's not like Amazon can keep anyone from doing the same thing with other products. A considerable number of companies already capture video of all their merchandise from manufacturing to shipment, which begs to question the Patentability of this process. The camera...