SEATTLE—Forget the titanium Apple Card–Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood.
Amazon’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain in the coming months, reported the New York Post.
“Employees at Amazon’s New York offices are 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,” the Post said.