Huffington Post – by Emily Thomas
Ever had that awkward moment when you’re about to pay for coffee and you find out you’ve left your card at home and don’t have enough change?
Well, a new card-less payment service will let you pay by scanning your hand so you never have to worry about holding up the line.
The PulseWallet syncs your credit card to the palm of your hand through the device’s internal biometric technology. Using built-in Fujitsu palm-scanning technology called Palm Secure, the electronic device photographs a person’s unique vein pattern just below the skin.
The distinct pattern of each individual’s veins makes forging extremely difficult.
“You are your wallet. Secured with a key that only you hold,” the website says.
Once you’re synced up with your chosen payment method, you can easily swipe your hand over the scanner at any participating PulseWallet business (none so far). The system, which was officially unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, will go on sale in February for an undisclosed amount, the Verge reports.
In 2012, a similar biometric palm-scanning technology was deployed in Pinellas County schools in Florida. Students who forgot to bring money for lunch to school could pay for their meals with a wave of their hands over the palm scanner, which was synced to their parents’ credit cards, USA Today reported.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/pulsewallet-palm-scanning-payment_n_4564472.html
Mark of the beast here we come.
This is like right out of the movie, “In Time” where they have to pay for things by scanning their hands which has a chip that takes away minutes on your life each time you buy something. The clock keeps ticking and you have to keep working or finding ways to add more time in order to keep surviving every day. Of course the super elite have decades and centuries of time, while the poor and middle class have weeks, days, if not hours of time to live.
Welcome to that world as I’m sure that will soon become a reality.
By the way, a person who always forgets or leaves his credit card in the car or is too lazy to get it, is too dumb enough to have one and therefore is only one dumb enough to use this system.