Amazon Trying Out Hand-Scanning Payment System

Amazon reportedly is testing scanners that can identify a human hand to use as a payment method for in-store purchases.

The company plans to introduce "Orville," as the system has been dubbed, to some Whole Foods stores by the beginning of 2020, and later expand it to all locations in the United States, according to the report.

Employees at Amazon's New York offices are said to be using the technology to buy items such as sodas, chips, granola bars and phone chargers from specially equipped vending machines.

The high-tech sensors used in the pilot apparently do not require consumers to physically touch the scanning surface. They use computer vision and depth geometry to process and identify the shape and size of each hand scanned before charging a credit card already on file.

Orville is accurate to within one ten-thousandth of 1 percent, but Amazon engineers are working to improve the accuracy to one millionth of 1 percent before it's launched, according to the report. It will be available for Amazon Prime account holders.

Orville reportedly can process charges in less than 300 milliseconds, compared to the three to four seconds required for a regular credit card transaction.

"We don't comment on rumors or speculation," an Amazon spokesperson said in an email sent to TechNewsWorld by company representative Amanda Felix.

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