Your Finger as Credit Card?
Here is another technology that will make credit card swiper smile. A biometric application which uses fingerprint as way of payment. Customers will be freed from PIN numbers, cash, checks and plastic credit cards. Instead, a stored finger image is matched (or rejected) with the customer’s and a payment mode (credit, debit, or ATM) is selected for a purchase. This is more secured and convenient! read below for further info
Japanese look at fingers as credit cards
An employee of Hitachi demonstrates a cash machine using a biometric security system to read the user’s fingers during a press conference in Tokyo in 2005. Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new level, the Japanese company has said it will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger.
Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new level, a Japanese company said Monday it will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger.
The system uses biometric technology to identify the veins on a person’s finger, which can then serve as a credit card or ATM card.
Electronics maker Hitachi Ltd., which developed the technology with credit card maker JCB Co. Ltd., said the system was the ultimate in security.
“The growing use of credit cards is leading banking institutions to introduce reliable security based on biometrics to prevent fraud,” Hitachi said in a statement.
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Comments
I agree with you AnitoKid
This idea is I believe an arm reach..
With the gadget and tool now centered in touch-based tech it will be no surprise that one day we’ll just woke up with just our hand (finger) doing the merchant transactions..no credit card/no cheque/ no cash..
However, I’m just wondering the security measure by then.. heheh I don’t want my finger be cut by thief.. 
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Couple this technology with Microsoft’s Surface and you get one hell of a device and concept!
And come to think of it, it isn’t far-fetched idea!
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