Amazon tests Whole Foods payment system that uses hands as ID

The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain in the coming months, The Post has learned. Employees...

Apple patents Watch band that could ID you from your wrist skin

As spotted by PatentlyApple, the company was granted a handful of patents this morning, all focused on bringing new tricks to the Watch by way of the band. The first patent describes a sensor built into the Watch or the watch’s band that could use infrared to build a...