Applied Biometrics Ferrari Ready to Dominate At Lime Rock.Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2000 Applied Biometrics Products, Inc. proudly announces that Todd Morici's 1981 Ferrari BBLM Car #72, which will be at the upcoming Lime Rock Park Lime Rock Park is a road course auto racing facility located in Lime Rock, Connecticut, a hamlet in the village of Lakeville, Connecticut. The track is owned by Skip Barber, a former race car driver who started the Skip Barber Racing School at Lime Rock Park in 1975. Ferrari Historic Challenge Series July 13 - 15, 2000, will be sporting Applied Biometrics' logo. Biometrics, the science of using your body to identify yourself (for example, via your fingerprint), has been around the track awhile but cost and portability have not allowed it to finish the race. Until now... A relative rookie driver of the biometrics industry, Applied Biometrics has been in the lead since the drop of the green when the company was formed in late 1998. Applied Biometrics has dominated the industry early in the race. More than a few laps ahead of the rest of the pack, Applied Biometrics focused on the role that portable products play and sought to provide a solution for this enormous market. The result of their blistering blis·ter·ing n. See vesiculation. pace: Kryptic, the world's only portable, battery operated, standalone, low cost, fingerprint identification devices. Judging by the reception their patented(a) Kryptic has had from such industry leaders as Palm Computing, it is clear that Applied Biometrics' Kryptic product family is now a veteran checkered check·ered adj. 1. Divided into squares. 2. Marked by light and dark patches; diversified in color. 3. Marked by great changes or shifts in fortune: a checkered career. flag winner. Applied Biometrics' competition is still in the pits and suffering from blown business paradigms, while the battery operated Kryptic products take all pole positions. Applied Biometrics' first product release, the standalone, low cost, Kryptic Pilot, makes portable Palm handhelds fingerprint-secured and works on just two AAA batteries. Clearly, Applied Biometrics has distanced themselves from the rest with the powerful, yet "fuel efficient", advantage that Kryptic provides. The Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, now in it's third year in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , is Ferrari's own version of vintage racing. Eligible for the series are authentic Ferrari and Maserati race cars built before 1983, and pre-war Alfa Romeos raced by Enzo Ferrari's Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. Though the Scuderia and Ferrari Corse Clienti continue to manage the racing activities of numerous Ferrari customers and private teams, Ferrari's racing . Only in this unique series can enthusiasts watch a pre-war Maserati Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. car racing against a rare Ferrari 335S which starred at the Mille Miglia The Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles - pronounced ['mi:lle 'mi:lja]) was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947). , or a pair of 250 Testa Rossas, each a LeMans winner, racing against each other, or a pack of half-dozen 512 BB/LMs making all the noises for which racing Ferraris are famous. The Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge permits the owners of these historic cars to enjoy them in a competitive environment on some of the most famous race circuits in North America. Applied Biometrics is honored to be a part of this historic event. Contact Applied Biometrics Products, Inc. at (603) 544-8405 to discuss your security needs or, visit their website, www.appliedbiometrics.net for more information. (a) Applied Biometrics Products, Inc. patent pending. Applied Biometrics Products, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. and not publicly traded. They are headquartered in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). and have no relationship with any company of similar name. Kryptic and Kryptic Pilot are trademarks of Applied Biometrics Products, Inc. |
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