<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e8beb9ec-c102-4007-aae1-c67a87c7bcb9/B952D1CE-5D49-4134-91C7-708C54552AB1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stunning-stuff.com/read-weird-news-stories/118.html?ci=5" href="http://www.stunning-stuff.com/read-weird-news-stories/118.html?ci=5" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stunning-stuff.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stunning-stuff.com/read-weird-news-stories/118.html?ci=5"><DIV align="justify" class="text_medium"><H1 align="left">Paying by fingerprint at the supermarket</H1><H2 align="left">Customers of a German supermarket chain will soon be able to pay for their shopping by placing their finger on a scanner at the check-out.</H2><DIV>An Edeka store in the southwest German town of Ruelzheim has piloted the technology since November, cutting out on time otherwise wasted scrabbling for coins or cards.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> <DIV><IMG border="0" alt="Paying with your fingerprint" src="http://www.stunning-stuff.com/images/articles/118/image_1.gif" /></DIV>The company plans to equip its stores across the region with the new technology.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> Store manager Roland Fitterer said: "All customers need do is register once with their identity card and bank details, then they can shop straight away".</DIV> The technology is based on comparing the shopper's fingerprint with those stored in its database along with account details. Edeka bosses said they were confident the system could not be abused. The chance of two people having the same fingerprint is about one in 220 million.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B952D1CE-5D49-4134-91C7-708C54552AB1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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