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New age technology has enabled consumers to pay for groceries with one wave of their hand, a development that has been deemed “kind of scary”.
The technology was highlighted in a video of a woman checking out of US retailer Whole Foods with Amazon One – a system allowing shoppers to pay with a mere flash of their palm.
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Hmm, interesting. Not sure what I think about this. Anyone in the US using it already?
I mean it’s convenient. You can’t forget your palm at home. Your palm can’t run out of battery. It’s pretty hard to replicate based on the article which suggests it is "impossible for a person’s palm to be replicated because its scan captured the hand’s ‘underlying vein structure to create a unique numerical, vector representation’”.
I’m guessing this is for small transactions, not buying a car, so I doubt people are going to be chopping off people’s hands and using them to buy groceries (hopefully!).
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Imagine people misunderstanding how the technology works and instead slapping their cashier when asked for payment…
Also this kind of exists already, with one extra step. Use your thumb to open your phone, touch your phone to the point of sale device.
Yeah, that’s what I use for close to 100% of my payments since about 2020.
I guess losing your phone or running out of battery are the limitations with that. Not often a problem admittedly.
as long as I don’t have to touch it…
Very cool up until the part where it says it’s run by Amazon.
I don’t want every retail transaction to be logged by Amazon and I especially don’t want them to have biometrics data of me. Fuck off.
Become a bank and comply with the respective regulation if you want to run a banking system.