The Chicago Tribune has a good article about how much more advanced the use of biometrics is in South Korea and Japan compared to here in the States. (Shocker, I know.) One use that I personally hadn't heard of which I liked was the biometric speed dialing system, linking a different person for each finger you pass over your cell phone's biometric reader.

For instance, touching the [sensor] with an index finger would dial Mom; touching it with a ring finger would dial Sweetie; touching it with the middle finger could dial the office.

(Note their specific finger assignments.) Read more at the Tribune to find that similar technology won't hit our shores for another year at least.

Let fingers do the walking with biometrics [ChicagoTribune via Textually]

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