SDKK Secure Design

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Secure Design KK
30 August 2006



FOR RELEASE 7:00AM                                               30 AUGUST 2006





                                SECURE DESIGN KK


                       ("Secure Design" or "the Company")



         Secure Design Acquired Shares in Fingerprint Cards AB, Sweden

                        - Leveraging Business Alliance -


Secure Design, a leading biometrics company based in Tokyo, Japan announced
today that it has acquired 300,000 shares in Fingerprint Cards AB ("Fingerprint
Cards") a major semiconductor fingerprint image sensor manufacturer, which is
O-listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, for a consideration of Y99,082,800 JPY
(GBP: #447,467.71). The acquisition took the form of a transfer from
Technoimagia Sweden AB*, which is a holding company for Fingerprint Cards.


Secure Design became the official exclusive Japanese distributor of Fingerprint
Cards in December 2005. Since then, the company has been purchasing Fingerprint
Cards's fingerprint image sensor components for its products including ITube (R)
and SD-GateTM, which are well known among distributors and customers.


The acquistion of the shares in Fingerprint Cards enhances the business and
technology relationships between two companies. The acquired 300,000 shares
correspond to 3.2% of outstanding B-shares, and 2.5% of the total voting power
in Fingerprint Cards.


As the Chairman of Secure Design Taketoshi Kashiwabara owns 40.6% of
Technoimagia, the Directors having consulted with Charles Stanley & Co Limited,
the Company's Nominated Adviser, consider the terms of the transaction to be
fair and reasonable in so far as its shareholders are concerned.


 *  Technoimagia Sweden AB: 100% subsidiary company of Technoimagaia Co. Ltd. in
    Tokyo, Japan. Prior to the acquisition, Technoimagia Sweden had 35.9% of shares
    in Fingerprint Cards, and 50.3% of the voting power.

 ** B-share: B-share is the ordinary share. A single B-share corresponds to a
    single voting power.


For further information, please contact:

Secure Design KK

Satoshi Takahashi (Chief Executive Officer) Japan         +81-3-3516-9303

Shinil Cho (Chief Information Officer) United Kingdom +44(0) 7738 842 662

                                                    Japan +81-3-3516-9303

                                            United States +1-412-367-7063

Charles Stanley Securities

Dugald Carlean                                        +44(0) 20 7953 2000

Freddy Crossley                                       +44(0) 20 7953 2000

Carl Holmes                                           +44(0) 20 7953 2000


Cubitt Consulting

Brian Coleman-Smith / Allison Reid / Leanne Denman    +44(0) 20 7367 5100

Mobile                                                +44(0) 7802 724 400


Background Note on Secure Design


On 14 July 2006, Secure Design was the first Japanese company to be admitted to
trading on AIM. It offers fingerprint authentication products to companies and
individuals that wish to establish high levels of security using biometrics.
Biometrics uses a physical attribute of the body, such as a fingerprint to
identify and verify the individual with the aim of making individual
authentication efficient and secure.

The Company offers a range of fingerprint authentication products and systems,
from an integrated system to a mobile device. The Company designs and outsources
the production of these products and can tailor them to individual client
specific needs and applications.

Biometric applications provide convenient and reliable security which reduces
the cost associated with the failure of conventional authentication methods. The
principal factor which distinguishes biometrics from conventional password based
authentication is the enhanced security level it provides while maintaining the
privacy of individual users.

The worldwide demand for biometrics is estimated to be increasing by
approximately 30 per cent per year with the market estimated to grow to almost
$6 billion by 2010 from $2 billion in 2006. Biometric applications and systems
are already being used for security in personal, commercial, government and
military organisations. Many governments, including the UK, have adopted or are
currently reviewing the need for biometric applications in passport and national
ID card systems. The Directors believe that as biometric applications in
national identification become commonplace the commercial applications will
proliferate. The commercial market for biometrics is expanding to financial, IT,
telecommunication and medical segments.




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