The giant Amazon
is constantly expanding its digital services to offer consumers a more
convenient way of shopping and to stay ahead in a very competitive retail
sector. While it was recently speculated that the firm will introduce more
Amazon Go stores, there have been several more rumours going around.
According to the latest reports, the company is secretly
working on a new payment method that would allow shoppers to checkout at
supermarkets via their hand. The system has been codenamed ‘Orville’. It would give customers the
opportunity to scan their hands at stores and to link it to their credit or
debit card. The sensors utilised are different from those involved in phone
fingerprint scanners. Users will not have to physically touch the device. The
latter will, instead, use vision and depth geometry to analyse and validate the
shape and size of the hand before charging the price to a payment card
stored in the system.
The rumours advanced that this new checkout infrastructure
is accurate to within one ten-thousandth of one percent. However, Amazon tech
experts are working to improve this to a millionth of one percent before
launching it. It is also being reported that the tech giant wishes to introduce
this technology to a few Whole Foods stores by the beginning of next year and
it will expand to more outlets afterwards. Nonetheless, an Amazon
spokesperson has refused to comment on this.
Amazon is reportedly working on a new hand-scanning tech
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