Apple and Google make it easy to leave your wallet be when it's time to pay at the register, but now there are murmurs about factoring out your smartphone as well. The Wall Street Journal reports that ...

Amazon.com Inc. is reported to be developing point of sale terminals that would accept a scan of a user’s hand to make a payment, according to The Wall Street Journal. The POS terminals would be ...

Amazon reportedly is testing scanners that can identify a human hand to use as a payment method for in-store purchases. The company plans to introduce “Orville,” as the system has been dubbed, to some ...

This palm reader will not be able to tell your fortune, but it will figure out if you are part of Panera's loyalty program. Over the next few months, the bakery-café chain will roll out scanners that ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) -- A food safety startup is ramping up pilot testing of a hand scanner to detect pathogens, and a Bay Area restaurant chain gave KPIX 5 a first look. PathSpot, based in New York, has ...

Amazon is testing out a new payment method at its New York offices: hand scanning. So far, the e-retailer has refused to comment on the project, which is code-named "Orville," but a report in the New ...

Amazon reportedly is testing scanners that can identify a human hand to use as a payment method for in-store purchases. The company plans to introduce “Orville,” as the system has been dubbed, to some ...

Instead of developing technology that makes people spend money more slowly and with more thought, big businesses are continuing the trend of helping us spend it at least a thousand times more quickly ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KPIX/CBS Newspath) - New technology could soon be the future in putting an end to spreading germs to food. PathSpot installed its first device on the west coast at the Pizza My Heart ...

Amazon filed a patent for technology that could identify you by scanning the wrinkles in the palm of your hand and by using a light to see beneath your skin to your blood vessels. The resulting images ...

Hand scanners for city employees has been put off for now! Last month, the NY Times reported that some city employees were required to scan into offices using biometric hand scanners in an effort to ...

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Department in Washington state has selected a full-hand scanner from Cross Match Technologies Inc. to improve its criminal booking system, according to David Bales, ...