Engadget found an interesting news item about the grocery store chain Cub Foods, introducing a biometric interface to an “electronic wallet.” Touch here and your account is automagically debited.
Perhaps a greater use of finger scanning will reduce the incidence of trading in fingers.
:)


May 20th, 2005 at 6:34 am
I posted a similar opinion about the use of voice-print activation for credit cards. A slippery slope, to be sure…
http://transorz.blogspot.com/2005/04/they-only-need-finger.html