Are you a credit card user who ha a habit of forgetting your card behind just when you need it most? Quite a hassle isn’t it? In a few years time this problem could be totally solved with Hitachi Ltd’s innovation of using your finger to make payments. It’s true! So when this time comes you can say goodbye to credit cards for good! And take note that it’s not a simple fingerprint scan. This new technology is much more sophisticated than that because instead of the lines on your finger, the biometric technology will identify the veins or blood vessel patterns in the specific digit. This new technology rates high in terms of security since blood vessel pattern can be hard to fake. So instead of a card, your finger will be your payment passport.

This biometric technology is made by Hitachi Ltd. in cooperation with credit card maker JCB Co. Ltd. A field test will be done starting September with 200 Hitachi employees as volunteers. In order to use the system, registration with the credit card company is needed and the data gathered will be recorded in a database. So when the user needs to pay something, the finger just needs to be placed under the vein reader and the appropriate person’s data will be retrieved and charges and payment can be made.