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Want to buy a drink? Just scan the veins of your finger
Coca-Cola's "Freestyle" suicide-making machine is so last week. Hitachi's come up with its own little gimmick that's even crazier: paying for a drink with your biometrics.
We've seen Hitachi's finger vein authentication system before in cars. Now, machines installed in the company's buildings will allow registered employees to buy drinks just by having their finger scanned. While we still use good ol' coins and bills here in the US, other countries allow folks to pay at vending machines with their cell phones and, now in Japan at least, a finger.
No word on if anyone but Hitachi employees will get to play with the technology. Man, Japanese businesses get all the coolest toys. Now all they need is to strike up a deal with Honda to have the sodas handed out by Asimo.
MSN Japan, via Crunch Gear
By monster at 10:05 AM ON 07/29/09
I want to by a drink. that sounds sexy.
normally i just buy them and drink them
By Old Man Dotes at 12:21 PM ON 07/29/09
I like the idea of giving a vending machine the finger. Not sure I want to trust it enough to put any part of my body in it, though; corporations have demonstrated that none of them can be trusted with a dime, much less our precious bodily fluids.
By Handle at 11:31 PM ON 07/31/09
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.
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