Ongoing significant biometric projects are tracked and there are current news and analysis sections. Members of the consortium include Barclay's Bank, HP, the US National Security Agency, NEC and Unisys. Version 1.0 of the API specification is available in PDF format. There are four working groups tackling different aspects of the standard and current status reports are available. Versions are available for various handheld organizers, including Palms.
Demos are available for immediate download.
As most handheld organizers come with writing tablets built in, they do not need any additional hardware, unlike most laptop or desktop systems. Not everyone is willing to trade privacy for convenience. Finally, forget about trying to identify individual people, sometimes it would be nice just to know the species of an entity banging away at the keyboard. Available for Windows 95, NT and 2000, Pawsense recognizes the difference between a cat strolling across a keyboard and human typing, preventing possibly disastrous random key combinations being fed to, say, your tax return spreadsheet.