__ 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. __
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!).
Could be a useful tech?
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.
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I had no idea Palm was still around and they’re going to make Palm Pilots compatible with payment systems!
Better late than never I suppose 🤷
I remember in the early 90s our local YMCA had a hand/palm reader that we used to sign in, instead of membership cards
that thing was terrible at recognizing my palm, or maybe it was just because I was a kid my hand kept growing
No no no, fucking no. I didn’t want a cell phone and then I had to have one for work and now they want my biometrics? Every bit of identity and every ha’penny you have must be accessible and on display at all times with this fucked up society. They won’t be happy until we’re all just walking around naked carrying every dollar we have fanned out in our hands so it can be counted faster.
All convenience paid for with intrusion.
I’m just not sure that I believe in the efficacy of palm reading.
“I see… Financial trouble in your future… beep.”
