A fingerprint is a machine readable identifier, a physical world hyperlink (PWH).
While this method is not considered direct connect yet, it still shows the power of using a mobile phone to retrieve information from the Internet using a PWH.
From the BBC Mobiles used for fingerprint detection
Six police forces are now using the technology, which relies on new compression techniques to transmit digital prints over mobile phones.
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