Oki Electric has developed a middleware iris scanning and recognition solution that can be used on various smartphones and PDAs. No extra fancy equipment is needed as Oki’s solution can use fairly standard components: a 1-megapixel camera and a mobile CPU with a 220 MHz clock speed will do. This type of biometric recognition can be used to unlock a device without adding extra hardware like a fingerprint reader. Don’t expect to see this technology integrated until next year when it could be available across Windows Mobile, Windows XP and Symbian S60 devices.

(via Windows For Devices)