带闺女逛超市的说说 今后逛超市可能连手机都不用带了

今后逛超市可能连手机都不用带了  

A UK supermarket has bee the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips.
Customers at the Costcutter store
at Brunel University in London
can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves.
The firm behind the technology
Sthaler
has said it is in "serious talks" with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
发明这项技术的公司Sthaler表示，他们正在和英国其他主要超市“认真沟通”让数千家商店的收银处采用高科技指尖静脉扫描仪。
It works by using infrared to scan people's finger veins and then links this unique biometric map to their bank cards. Customers’ bank details are then stored with payment provider Worldpay
in the same way you can store your card details when shopping online. Shoppers can then turn up to the supermarket with nothing on them but their own hands and use it to make payments in just three seconds.
It es as previous studies have found fingerprint recognition
used widely on mobile phones
is vulnerable to being hacked and can be copied even from finger smears left on phone screens.
But Sthaler
the firm behind the technology
claims vein technology is the most secure biometric identification method as it cannot be copied or stolen.
Shaler said dozens of students were already using the system and it expected 3
000 students out of 13
000 to have signed up by November.
The technology uses an infrared light to create a detailed map of the vein pattern in your finger. It requires the person to be alive
meaning in the unlikely event a criminal hacks off someone’s finger
it would not work. Sthaler said it take just one minute to sign up to the system initially and
after that
it takes just seconds to place your finger in a scanner each time you reach the supermarket checkout.
Simon Binns
mercial director of Sthaler
told the Daily Telegraph: ‘This makes payments so much easier for customers.
"This is the safest form of biometrics. There are no known incidences where this security has been breached.
"When you put your finger in the scanner it checks you are alive
it checks for a pulse
it checks for hemoglobin. ‘Your vein pattern is secure because it is kept on a database in an encrypted form
as binary numbers. No card details are stored with the retailer or ourselves
it is held with Worldpay
in the same way it is when you buy online."