Posted on 12/29/2019 4:28:11 PM PST by DFG
Amazon is one step closer to implementing its creepy, futuristic flesh-and-blood payment system.
The e-tailing giant’s engineers on Thursday filed a patent application for a device that can scan a human hand — without ever touching it — as a way to ring up a store purchase.
As The Post exclusively reported in September, the device is being developed by Amazon engineers under the code name “Orville” for a future rollout at the Amazon-owned Whole Foods supermarket chain.
Employees at Amazon’s New York offices have been serving as guinea pigs for the biometric technology, using it at a handful of vending machines to buy such items as sodas, chips, granola bars and phone chargers, according to sources briefed on the plans.
Recode first reported the news of Amazon’s Thursday patent filing, which says the device will identify users by surface characteristics of the palm such as wrinkles, as well as deeper features like veins.
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What wonderful technology. Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
Right up to the point of......
[Forehead too?]
At some point, that will be the other option offered. Make that “mandatory” - if one wants to buy and sell, that is.
[ Many individuals cannot use their hands, many do not have hands. What about those?
They’ll put it on your forehead. ]
Winner
[The Mark of the Bezos.]
Heh
There are stories of people who chop of the fingers of dead people and freeze them to provide proof - in order to get SSI benes.
Well there was my original post, which was merely comparative in nature:
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If you’ve already succumbed to the lockstep conformity consensus model of “truth”, ringing up granola bars should be the least of your concerns.
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Not being able to recognize the Son of Man ought to be at the top of that list of concerns. The good news is that if these sorts of devices become the norm, they might cause religious "end times" folks to stop buying the lastest "end times" merchandise. As such, a few might wake up and catch on before it's too late, if forced to go cold turkey.
I thought it was a man’s “unit”.....
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