In 2013, the Apple company implemented the first useful fingerprint reader for smartphones, and then it started a revolution that would motivate its competitors to follow suit in their own products launched in the following months. Although so far no smartphone manufacturer has managed to implement a fingerprint reader in a way as intuitive and useful as Apple, laptop manufacturers are preparing to anticipate a future logical move by those from Cupertino.
Although there are a number of laptops on the market that have fingerprint readers available, this functionality has not been widely implemented in such products, but this will change soon. Synaptics, one of the leading manufacturers of touchpads and trackpads, announced the launch of SecurePad, a touchpad with a fingerprint reader integrated in its upper part, allowing the protection of this type of product with a fingerprint separate from a password or security code.
Following the example of those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, the Synaptics company developed touchpads that read fingerprints by simply touching its surface and not by swiping on it, this simplifying the process and making reading easier. From here on, the implementations are countless and if you haven't realized it yet, then I'm telling you now that the days of classic passwords and security codes are numbered, the use of programs to replace them with fingerprints will take place soon.
Synaptics has made the SecurePad system available to laptop manufacturers for implementation in their future products, and one of the surprises prepared by Apple for its Macs will no longer be so "surprising" of course, as months will pass until when the first SecurePad components will be available in laptops launched on the market, but it is clear that the future belongs to fingerprint readers.
