{"id":113578,"date":"2020-09-29T17:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/amazon-introduces-ability-to-pay-with-your-hands"},"modified":"2020-09-29T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:09:37","slug":"amazon-introduces-ability-to-pay-with-your-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/amazon-introduces-ability-to-pay-with-your-hands","title":{"rendered":"Amazon introduces ability to pay with your hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-introduces-ability-to-pay-with-your-hands2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/credit-cards\" target=\"_blank\">credit card<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/mobile\" target=\"_blank\">smartphone<\/a> to pay for your goods, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/amazon\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> wants you to use your hands.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, the company unveiled its own palm recognition technology, known as Amazon One. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/tech\" target=\"_blank\">technology<\/a>, first rolling out in Amazon\u2019s home market of Seattle, will use people\u2019s palms to identify them and combine that with details of the palm, such as lines and ridges, to build a \u201cpalm signature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn most retail environments, Amazon One could become an alternate payment or loyalty card option with a device at the checkout counter next to a traditional point of sale system,\u201d Dilip Kumar, vice president, Amazon Physical Retail, wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.aboutamazon.com\/innovation\/introducing-amazon-one-a-new-innovation-to-make-everyday-activities-effortless?ots=1&amp;slotNum=2&amp;imprToken=06ba6cb8-026e-c75c-c85&amp;ascsubtag=%5B%5Dvg%5Be%5D21257135%5Br%5Dgoogle.com%5Bt%5Dw%5Bd%5DD\">post<\/a>. \u201cOr, for entering a location like a stadium or badging into work, Amazon One could be part of an existing entry point to make accessing the location quicker and easier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of using a credit card or smartphone to pay for your goods, Amazon wants you to use your hands. In a blog post, the company unveiled its own palm recognition technology, known as Amazon One. The technology, first rolling out in Amazon\u2019s home market of Seattle, will use people\u2019s palms to identify them and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113582,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113578\/revisions\/113582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}