I thought this article was kind of funny with all the talk of zombies and the added photo, but I can understand the real applications of fingerprint scanners telling the difference between dead and living tissue. Sounds a bit scary to think of someone cutting off your hand to gain access to your car, but luckily it sounds like this shouldn’t be much of a problem with this new development.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128225.100-fingerprint-scanner-to-spot-the-living-dead.html