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Oskars Lakšēvics, Chief Commercial Officer @Handwave Payments technology has always moved in waves - roughly every decade. In the 1990s, chip cards replaced magnetic stripes. In the early 2000s, NFC transformed cards into contactless devices. By 2012, mobile wallets brought NFC into smartphones, and with it, biometric authentication entered everyday commerce for the first time. Mobile wallets have achieved global scale and normalised the idea of paying with your face or fin

Handwave īsteno pētniecības projektu Latvijas Atveseļošanas un noturības mehānisma plāna 1.2. reformu un investīciju virziena "Energoefektivitātes uzlabošana" 1.2.1.2.i. investīcijas "Energoefektivitātes paaugstināšana uzņēmējdarbībā (ietverot pāreju uz atjaunojamo energoresursu tehnoloģiju izmantošanu siltumapgādē un pētniecības un attīstības aktivitātes (t. sk. bioekonomikā))" 1.2.1.2.i.2. pasākuma "Inovatīvu produktu un tehnoloģiju izstrāde" īstenošanas noteikumu ietvaros.

Paying with a handwave once sounded like science fiction, but contactless palm recognition service Amazon One has already been used more...