iPhone 5S fingerprint reader recognizes cat’s pawprints
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A screengrab of a video from the TechCrunch site, where a blogger configured the fingerprint reader on a new iPhone to respond to a cat's pawprint. (FoxNews.com / TechCrunch)
Everyone’s feline good about the new iPhone.
Tech-industry watchers who got advance copies of the iPhone 5s gave thumbs-up to its new fingerprint ID feature — which allows users to unlock the phone just by touching a sensor.
But a techie Web site discovered that even a cat’s paw can do the trick.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Cats have fingerprints just like humans, TechCrunch said, and blogger Darrell Etherington found he could register the paw of a colleague’s cat on a 5s.
The cat was repeatedly able to unlock the phone using that paw, but not with the other paw, he said. A video of the cat’s deed went viral Thursday.
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Meanwhile, human tech junkies camped out in front of the Apple Store in Midtown — some saying they had slept in lawn chairs for weeks — to score new iPhones on Friday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Apple fans claimed it’s worth crashing in sleeping bags to be first to snag the new iPhone 5s, which comes in the color gold and features a new fingerprint security scanner.
“I’ve been out here 14 days. The Apple Store is open 24 hours, so I use the bathroom there . . . We love this whole experience,” said Joseph Cruz, 20, of Staten Island.
His cousin Brian Ceballo, 19, a musician living in Downtown Brooklyn, said the wait was great.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I’ve never slept so good on the floor before,” Ceballo said.
“I’m not really giving up anything . . . I’d just be home doing my music,” he said.
Numbers eight and nine in line were German tourists, who said camping out is part of their New York adventure.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I would never do this in Berlin — that would be strange and crazy. But this is the city of the iPhone,” said Anna Prymak, 18.
Read more about the new iPhones at the New York Post.