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Engineering student Fendrik Leifland at Lund University in Sweden has developed a scanner, called Quixter, that reads the pattern of vessels in your palm in order to pay for purchases. Scanning the palm and entering the last four digits of your phone number at the cash register will pay for the items. Fifteen facilities around the university have begun using the vein-matching biometric scanners and 1,600 participants are registered to pay through the program.
Those interested can register at a shop with a Quixter reader by putting in a personal identity number (basically a social security number), phone number, and scanning their hand three times. Later, participants will receive a text message with an activation link that completes registration process. All purchases will accumulate on an invoice that will automatically withdraw the stated amount twice a month.
The
goals of Quixter are to make paying for purchases easier if you forget your
credit card and to help eliminate credit fraud and identity theft. The pattern
of blood vessels in the palm is unique to each person. Even if someone stole
your four digit code, the payment transaction would not work when they went to
swipe their hand.
Some
other payment technologies being used in the United Kingdom are cell phones with
a contactless NFC (near-field communications) payment app for the Samsung
Galaxy S3, a pay tag sticker that can be plastered on anything from your phone
to your shoe, and PayPal Check-in.
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