{"id":72785,"date":"2017-09-24T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/british-supermarket-offers-finger-vein-payment-in-worldwide-first"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:26:50","slug":"british-supermarket-offers-finger-vein-payment-in-worldwide-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/british-supermarket-offers-finger-vein-payment-in-worldwide-first","title":{"rendered":"British supermarket offers \u2018finger vein\u2019 payment in worldwide first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/british-supermarket-offers-finger-vein-payment-in-worldwide-first.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2017\/04\/20\/mastercard-creates-credit-card-fingerprint-scanner\/\">using just the veins<\/a> in their fingertips.<\/p>\n<p>Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in \u201cserious talks\u201d with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/british-supermarket-offers-payment-fingerprint-worldwide-first\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/british-supermark...ide-first\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips. Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves. The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72785","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}