A great new project that still needs the funding to hit the production. PIPA is a team working on a fingerprint authentication for basically anything. Fingerprint authentication is still a sketchy territory, there are number of models but they are all limited to a specific device or a platform. The PIPA guys and their PIPA Touch Scanner can "add biometric authentication to phones' lock screens, websites and other tasks through a developer kit, and a modular design lets it slip into cases for the Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices that should receive support."
Cool thing is, their technology supports a secure multi-scan touch sequence, meaning the user can define not only one finger for the scan authentication but a number of finger scans and different fingers in any order they want. The multi-scan sequence makes the level of security basically limitless. It can be used for the simple and trivial things like unlocking your smartphone, or actions that really require high rate of personal security like authenticating to pay with your PayPal account. Best you watch the PIPA presentation video bellow and see the PIPA Touch in action.
More about the story and how you can help fund the idea here: http://goo.gl/Z2TsQ
