Quixter introduces hand payments

Out of the numerous methods in which one can pay for the purchased products, none, until now, is biometric. Cash, cheques, plastic, can be put aside in Sweden where Quixter needs only your palm and the last 4 digits of your telephone number in order to pay for your products.

Fredrik Leifland, an engineering student, came up with Quixter as a faster paying system after realizing that the methods we use now are not only slow but less safe: 'I had the idea when I was queuing in a supermarket. I realised that the most time-consuming part of the whole purchase was paying and I thought there must be a faster way to do this. And that was the start of Quixter.'

The device recognizes the unique vein structure in each person hand by using an infrared scanner. The technology is not new and is currently used for accessing medical records or to identify people.

Quixter's developer says the system is more precise than using fingerprints and dismisses the problems of card cloning.