Quixter has built a biometric pay-by-palm technology system that’s up and running at Lund University in Sweden. The idea is the brainchild of Fredrik Leifland, an engineering student at the university, who wanted to come up with a quicker system for making card payments. (And clearly didn’t think much of NFC.) Read More
Minority Report references are old hat in the tech world. In fact, it’s often a great way to describe technology that, as the cliche goes, "sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel," yet is destined to remain a fiction. But this futuristic facial-recognition security system is the exception. It exists, and it’s scary good.
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While others obsess over fingers, Fujitsu wants your palms instead. Going against the flow, it plans to employ palm-vein scanning on smartphones in the future. The company, who is one … Continue reading
Apple has further detailed the way security works in iOS, including how the Touch ID system handles keeping fingerprint data safe as biometrics come under renewed scrutiny following Samsung’s Galaxy … Continue reading
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 includes a fingerprint scanner embedded in the home button, and that hardware will be made available to third-party devs, the company announced today at a developer-focused event during MWC this year. That move is in stark contrast to Apple’s strategy with its own fingerprint sensor tech, which is specifically off-limits to third-party devs. Apple went to great… Read More
Samsung has managed to keep the Galaxy S5 pretty much under-wraps ahead of its presumed MWC 2014 debut, but that hasn’t stopped case manufacturers getting in on the action, with … Continue reading
Do you guys think features like a fingerprint scanner will make or break a decision to purchase a particular smartphone? Ever since Apple debuted Touch ID on its iPhone 5s, the rumors have been swirling that Apple’s Android competitors have started to consider adding such a feature to their devices, with the LG G3 being the latest victim of these rumors. Well if ever any Android OEM were to consider adding fingerprint sensors in their handsets in the future, perhaps Korea’s CrucialTec might be the company that they turn to for their biometric needs. (more…)
New Crystal Ceramic Material Could Rival Apple’s Sapphire Touch ID original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Forget retina scans and fingerprints. Turns out, body odor is a shockingly accurate biometric identifier. And according to new research from a team of Spanish scientists, it could change the way security checkpoints work.
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That embarrassing moment when you reach the check out counter and realize you do not have cash on you, or forgot to bring your credit card out with you, could be a thing of the past thanks to a new payment system debuted at CES 2014 by the folks at PulseWallet. Basically what this does is that instead of relying on credit cards or cash, PulseWallet will allow users to pay for items simply by scanning their wrists, whereby the built-in palm scanning technology by Fujitsu, Palm Secure, will be able to to photograph the veins under the person’s wrist which is apparently unique to each person. Due to the distinct patterns and complexity of a person’s veins, forgery would be extremely difficult.
However PalmWallet does require that you have some kind of payment method linked to it, whether it be a direct debit from your bank account, or if it is linked up to your credit card. Unfortunately at the moment there are no retailers supporting PalmWallet at the moment, but the system is expected to go on sale in February and it will be interesting to see if anyone decides to actually implement the system, and if anyone actually plans on using it to begin with. This technology is definitely not new as Pinellas County schools in Florida have adopted a similar system, where students could pay for their meals by waving their hands over the scanner which were linked to their parents’ credit cards.
It’s a novel idea and a unique one at that, but what do you guys think? Is paying by cash and card a habit that’s hard to break?
PulseWallet Lets You Pay For Items By Scanning Your Wrist original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Apple’s fingerprint-sensing feature, Touch ID, continues to work fine for many. But a growing number of issues have surfaced since its introduction last September. While faulty software or hardware could be to blame in a few cases, the problem might …
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