Cashing out at supermarkets with credit cards and Smartphones could soon become a thing of the past once companies take notice of Amazon’s latest technology being implemented at Whole Foods stores in Seattle.
Known as the Amazon One device, the scanner reads the palms of customers in a split second and then sends the purchase charges to their linked bank accounts or credit card companies.
The biometric technology collects the “palm reads” and credit card accounts of consumers and sends the secured, encrypted data to an exclusive Amazon cloud. Customers in the initial test markets sign up using their mobile phone numbers and credit card numbers.
“No two palms are alike, so we analyze all these aspects with our vision technology and select the most distinct identifiers on your palm to create your palm signature,” Amazon stated in a social media post.
The palm scanners are due to arrive in several Seattle locations of Whole Foods by mid-summer.
(Lead photo by Keenan Constance)