As reported on Engadget.
By Jon Fingas
If you hadn’t heard, fingerprint readers are in vogue these days. Synaptics clearly knows it: the company just acquired Validity, a firm that specializes in finger-based authentication. The $92.5 million deal gives Synaptics both access to the biometric market as well as a complement to its existing touch input devices. While the company isn’t detailing its plans, it’s easy to see the potential impact. When Synaptics makes the majority of laptop trackpads, there’s a real chance that fingerprint sign-inson PCs could become commonplace.