Fingerprint sensors on smartphones aren't even mainstream yet, but they're about to be obsoleted nevertheless. Bigtime. Softbank, one of Japan's biggest carriers, and Universal Robot have co-developed software that will allow you to unlock your smartphone with your palm pattern and veins. No, really.
How it works is easy enough, like the image above shows. You just hold your hand in view of your device's camera (could be either rear or front-facing camera, we presume, but the latter has been demoed). Using the aforementioned software, your smartphone then checks if the palm and veins it sees really do belong to you.
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