Here's Looking At You, Kid
A new automatic teller machine was unveiled Wednesday in Las Vegas. CBS This Morning Consumer Correspondent Herb Weisbaum reports that you can finally forget your secret pin code. This ATM checks your iris to make sure it's really you before it forks over the cash.
The iris identification system is simple. To get started, customers have their eyes photographed so that the information about their iris can be digitally encoded and stored for later comparison.
When you go to the specially-equipped cash machine, all you do is look at the flashing yellow light. In about the time it would take you to punch in a 4-digit pin code, the machine recognizes you. 
When you think of positive identification, you probably think fingerprints. But iris identification is even better, and often more accurate. According to the Sensar Corporation, it's virtually foolproof.
Rob Van Naarden is with Sensar and he asserts that iris identification is "more accurate than DNA testing."
To test that assertion, we tried the system out with Tracy and Janet. They're identical twins. That means they have the same DNA, but their irises are different. When Janet attempts to use Tracy's card, the machine knows who's who and rejects her.
But there's more, Van Naarden explains: "Turns out that our system works with glasses, contact lenses, and most sunglasses."
The machines are already being used in England, and a big East Coast bank is expected to announce it will launch a pilot project using them early next year.
By Herb Weisbaum
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