Calif. company releases iris-scan health evaluation kiosk
September 27, 2009
Los Angeles-based IridoTech Inc. has introduced IridoLab, a health-evaluation kiosk system that uses biometric iris scans to help users monitor their well-being.
According to a news release from IridoTech, IridoLab uses a dual-eye camera to complete iris scans and evaluates them using iris-based biometrics and techniques in Iridodiagnostics:
In short, a customer approaches an IridoLab kiosk ... and scans both eyes at once using our dual-eye camera system in as little as 10 seconds. Then the computer searches the pictures for specific biometric characteristics of the iris and compares the obtained readings to statistical norms, producing the IridoLab Evaluation Report.
IridoTech says a summary of the report is free to the customer and that a detailed report can be purchased and viewed or printed at the kiosk or online. IridoTech says the field of Iridodiagnostics is typically categorized as a complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.
The company says it will begin taking orders for the IridoLab in November.