Iris Recognition - Iris Recognition in Fiction

Iris Recognition in Fiction

• In Demolition Man (1993), a character played by Wesley Snipes uses the Warden's gouged eye to gain access through a security door.
• In Dan Brown's 2000 novel Angels and Demons, an assassin gains access to a top secret CERN laboratory using a scientist's eye using retina scan.
• Steven Spielberg's 2002 science fiction film Minority Report depicts a society in which what appears to be a form of iris recognition has become daily practice. The principal character undergoes an eye transplant in order to change his identity but continues to use his original eyes to gain access to restricted locations.
• In The Island (2005), a clone character played by Ewan McGregor uses his eye to gain access through a security door in the home of his DNA donor.
• The Simpsons Movie (2007) features a scene that illustrates the difficulty of image acquisition in iris recognition.
• Numb3rs features a scene where a robber gets into the CalSci facility by cracking the code assigned to a specific iris.
• NCIS uses an iris scanner in the garage, where forensic vehicle investigations are carried out and evidence is stored. There is another scanner at the entrance to MTAC. The sequence of Leroy Jethro Gibbs being verified is shown in the title sequence. The imagery for this sequence has been "enhanced" using special effects. Iris recognition systems do not use the laser like beams shown in the sequence and the light that they do use is near-infrared and nearly invisible.