Amazon Is Reportedly Developing a Hand-Scanning Payment Option

Tech will link credit and debit cards to users’ palms

Amazon is reportedly developing checkout terminals that will allow shoppers to pay by scanning the palms of their hands.

That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. Amazon declined comment.

Amazon is developing the terminals, which link credit and debit cards to consumers’ hands, for use in coffee shops, quick-service restaurants and other locations that “do lots of repeat business,” per the WSJ.

The platform is said to be working with Visa to test the technology and is in discussions with Mastercard.

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