__ 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?

  • AtemuEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    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.

    • gian English
      1•1 year ago

      Become a bank and comply with the respective regulation if you want to run a banking system.

      If this system will ever become more widely used, Amazon will be forced to comply with bank regulations.

      • AtemuEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Not if Amazon can cheat itself out of those regulations that is.

        • gian English
          1•1 year ago

          Problem is: if Amazon does not follow the rules&certifications no banks accept their transactions, so dead end. If Amazon became a bank and issue credit cards, if they don’t follow rules&certifications no banks accept their transactions, so another dead end.

          Banks are much more powerfull than Amazon. Only option is a walled garden, but it would maybe work only for Amazon’s employees.

  • SpaceBarEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    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.

    • MusketeerXOPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      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.

  • @LordOfTheChia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    a system allowing shoppers to pay with a mere flash of their palm

    Imagine people misunderstanding how the technology works and instead slapping their cashier when asked for payment…