Wednesday 4 September 2019
Amazon is reportedly working on speeding up checkouts at its physical stores by using your hand as a form of identification. According to a the New York Post, the retail giant is said to be quietly testing new scanners that can identify human hands to make a store purchase. The company intends to roll out the payment technology at its Whole Foods supermarket chain starting next year. “While a regular card transaction typically takes between three and four seconds, Amazon‘s new technology can process the charge in less than 300 milliseconds,” it reported. The system — aptly code-named “Orville” and intended…
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