Amazon now lets Whole Foods shoppers across California pay with a scan of their palm.
As reported by The Verge, the tech giant has deployed his Amazon One palm-scanning technology to his 65 Whole Foods across California. Expanding to stores.
Several Whole Foods stores in Los Angeles, Austin, Seattle and New York are already testing palm scanning technology.
The recent rollout will be the largest yet, starting at Whole Foods stores in Malibu, Montana His Ave, and Santa His Monica.
Amazon seeks to take advantage of the fact that our palms are made up of tiny features that the human eye and standard cameras cannot discern. Amazon One devices are designed to read them.
Amazon One uses information embedded in your palm to create a unique palm signature that can be read each time you use it.
"In seconds, proprietary image processing and computer vision his algorithm captures and encrypts the image of your palm," he explains Amazon on the website. .
No two palms are the same, and palm characteristics change very little over time, making them a safe and convenient choice for identity.
A customer can set up Amazon One by enrolling her palm fingerprint using a kiosk or her POS station at a merchant.
Once registered, shoppers can pay for items at checkout with a simple wave of the palm of their hand.
The latest Amazon One deployment is part of the company's campaign, using Just Walk Out technology inAmazon Gostores and Amazon Dash Cart, the smart shopping cart in the US are transforming the way customers interact with retail stores. Amazon Fresh Store.
The tech giant has also made the technology available as a service for third-party retailers to use in their stores.
To address privacy concerns, Amazon previously said that images taken at the kiosk would not be stored locally, but would be encrypted and sent to its dedicated cloud server.
It may be some time before this technology reaches Britain. Just last year, Amazon opened the country's first "checkout-free" supermarket.
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