Amazon is testing a payment system code-named "Orville" that allows you to make purchases using user identification by hand.
According to the New York Post, the testing is taking place in the New York offices of the Internet company, where the new system is installed on several vending machines selling chips, sodas and phone chargers.
Amazon intends to install scanners in the Whole Foods supermarket chain by the beginning of next year, the resource reports, citing sources informed about the company's plans.
Unlike most biometric systems, which require you to place your finger on the surface of a scanner, Amazon's technology does not appear to require you to physically touch any reader. Instead, it uses computer vision and depth geometry to scan shoppers' hands against Amazon Prime account details before withdrawing funds from a bank card.
The scanner's recognition accuracy is within one ten-thousandth of 1%, but Amazon intends to increase it to one millionth of a percent.
Source: 3dnews.ru