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 ...

As the patent points out, biometric systems are becoming more common as a way to access your vehicle. Hyundai, for example, ...

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 ...

Amazon Go customers could someday enter the store with a simple wave of the hand, replacing today’s process of swiping in with a dedicated smartphone app. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

With just the wave of a hand, Amazon is reportedly aiming to speed up checkout at Whole Foods stores. Amazon is testing a new system that lets customers pay for items by waving their hands in front of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...