A new technology claims to allow customers to pay for purchases by using a scan of their veins.

The program is called Pulse Wallet and the device is scanner similar to the point of sale devices where you slide your credit or debit card.  Pulse Wallet links to a credit card or other payment methods so that a customer can leave all identifying information at home.

The founders say the technology has many benefits.

In addition to being used in retail locations, the device can be used by airlines as a new form of boarding pass.  They say because the form and scan of veins is unique to each person…and people don’t really know what the pattern of their veins looks like…it gives them a password that no thief can steal.

The company says that there are no traces for someone to find like fingerprints and the person would have to be alive with the limb attached because blood flow is needed to perform the scan.