The Financial Services Club's Blog: Use your face and thumb to pay

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March 30, 2012

Use your face and thumb to pay

No, it's not biometrics ... it's a bit weird actually.

Just received a link from Matt Cross to a video of a new service that launches this Sunday, and claims to use your face and thumbs-up as a payment approval:

Looks like a bit of a joke, but it's not.

It's using NFC mobile media to verify payments.

Think I'll stick with Square.

p.s. this was an April fool!

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That works!

Posted by: (handmade trackback) Does this work? Signing with your face & thumb. The answer is ... | April 02, 2012 at 02:01 PM

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