Amazon tests new supermarket payment system that scans your HAND

AMAZON is secretly testing a new payment method which allows supermarket shoppers to buy goods using just a scan of their HAND, reports claim.

Workers at the giant’s New York offices are even testing out the biometric tech to buy snacks and drinks from company vending machines.

reports the sensors are different from phone fingerprint scanners as they don’t require users to physically touch their hands to the scanning surface.

Instead, they use vision and depth geometry to process and identify the shape and size of each hand they scan before charging a credit card already on file.

The system - codenamed Orville - will apparently allow customers with Amazon Prime accounts to scan their hands at stores and link them to their credit or debit card.

It’s accurate to within one ten-thousandth of one per cent, but Amazon's tech experts are working to improve it to a millionth of one per cent ahead of its launch, the source said.

Amazon hopes to introduce the tech to a few Whole Foods stores by the beginning of next year and to eventually expand the super-fast tech to all US locations.

"We don’t comment on rumours or speculation,” an Amazon spokesperson said when asked about the project last night.

While a regular card transaction typically takes between three and four seconds, Amazon’s new tech can process the charge in less than 300 milliseconds, one insider said.

“Retailers have always been interested in faster checkout,” Majd Maksad, founder and CEO of Status Money, a personal finance site, told The Post.

“You only have to walk into Whole Foods to see the massive lines of people waiting to check out. It’s a massive friction point.”