http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/ Engadget Comments for Citibank Singapore intros biometric payments, impulse shoppers rejoice http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/
Not really.. they have this in a redneck gas station a block from my house.. and not in a large city]]>Nov 22nd 2006 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/drive through rush hour to retrieve, I could see how this would be
nice, 7-digit pin or not.

@ Paul - You may be able to take my credit
card without me noticing, but you're not going to get my finger
without a fight! Besides, what good is the finger if you don't have
the 7-digit pin? Also, I'd imagine you can't just whack someone's
finger off, waltz into a store, and put the finger on a scanner
without causing a bit of a scene.

@ Sean - I live in a fairly big city and I've never seen one of these. Don't confuse your own experiences with reality. I'd say that these things are indeed rare, if you consider the percentage of shops that take, say, MasterCard, and compare it with the number of shops that have biometric payment.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/
But, this isn't really wow news.. biometrics is already here..

But, I have to agree with Brandon, I go shopping every weekend here in the Midwest(my girlfriend is a shop-a-holic); Haven't seen one yet..

Even Mastercard only has the speed tap style, where you just pass your card through a sensor.. (this is becoming more common) but using your fingers??

No.. this isn't common yet..]]>Nov 22nd 2006 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/
fingerprint scanners are garbage, mythbusters has a show it which all they had to do to "crack" it, was have a culprit grab a cd...which left his fingerprints on it, then they used a pc scanner, and then printed it out, and the fingerprint scanner accepted it.

They should be doing more with eye scanners.]]>Nov 22nd 2006 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncdgwjQxm0]]>Nov 25th 2006 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 22nd 2006 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/22/citibank-singapore-intros-biometric-payments-impulse-shoppers-r/Nov 25th 2006 12:46AM