Gas stations in Colorado and Chicago started accepting Pay by Touch payment using biometric fingerprint scanning. Your fingerprint is associated to a payment method on file through a pre-registration process and allows you to pay for your gas without pulling out your wallet. Pay By Touch, the company providing the solution has been around for 5 years and is based in San Francisco. According to their website, much of their retail sucess has been in grocery with Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, Piggly Wiggly, Lowes Foods, and Harris Teeter.
Articles on the subject:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21576756
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4376813
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/07/14/ddn071407dlm.html
