On Saturday, April 9th, 2005 CNN reviewed breakthrough in technologies. Internet was ranked #1 and the source or basis that allowed innovation and inventions of other technologies. From mobility technologies such as cell phones and PDA's to Satellite programming and Guided War tools, CNN covered it all. Among the list was our cherished biometrics technology ranked at #16 as a technology that will change how people are authenticated and identified. Analyst believed that biometrics identification is going to become basis of authentication and identification, but suggested some work is required in the field for mass uses. Below is a list ranked by CNN:
1) Wireless world
2) Defense technology
3) Alternative fuel vehicles
4) Biotechnology
5) Computers
6) Lasers
7) Genomics
8) Global finance
9) Processors
10) Digital storage
11) Space
12) Fiber optics
13) Satellite TV & radio
14) DNA testing
15) Video games
16) Biometrics
17) Energy and water savers
18) Scanning tunneling microscopes
19) Batteries
20) E-baggage
21) Remote controls
22) Animal cloning
23) Manufacturing technology
24) The big picture
25) Weather technology
You may read the full article @ CNN Top 25 Technology Breakthrough
...to see the one of many applied biometrics. In fact, the way it determines if an insect is nearby, it could almost be called, Insect Recognition. 
