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Biz: Hand vein tech offers safer digital ID

A Chinese research team has developed new cutting-edge recognition technology featuring microtraits of veins within human hands, which is "much safer and more convenient than the prevailing QR code and facial recognition technology," the researchers said. "The Air-Wave full-hand-vein technology, based on artificial intelligence, is capable of sensing millions of dimensional microfeature characteristic points, from major veins to capillaries, with just a single wave of the hand, enabling users to remain in motion while being identified and authorized," said Xie Qinglu, founder of Melux, the technology's developer in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.

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