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Amazon One Is Frank Herbert's Palm Lock
Amazon One is a means of quickly identifying individual palms. Human palms.
How Amazon One has trained a neural network using millions of artificial palms to create a contactless, identity verification system. pic.twitter.com/esg7nM8BET
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) September 5, 2023
Your palm is made up of tiny, distinct features on and below the surface, many that are indiscernible to the human eye or a standard camera.In seconds, a process of proprietary imaging and computer vision algorithms capture and encrypt your palm image.
Amazon One uses the information embedded in your palm to create a unique palm signature that it can read each and every time you use it.
(Via Amazon One.)
Amazon One seems to be a pretty good version of Frank Herbert's palm lock from his 1965 classic Dune:
She stopped at the door, saw it had no handle, but there was a faint depression on the surface of it where a handle should have been.Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock.
(Read more about Frank Herbert's palm lock from Dune)
I presume that the Amazon One can be installed a bit higher on a vertical surface; this would allow us to identify each other via a "high five"...
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