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[Mark]

California Schools Testing Palm Scanners On Children That Converts Veins In Their Right Hands To Numbers (Do Their Foreheads Come Next?)

Schools in California are testing palm scanners in their cafeterias in an attempt to speed up lunch service. “Right now, we are serving about 65 percent of the students and we would like to see that go up to 80 percent,” Apoian told CBS2′s Kristine Lazar. Under the old system, students entered a 5-digit pin code to verify their identity and receive lunch, allowing the school to process 150 students in about 15 minutes. The palm scanner works by taking a two-inch image of the vein paths on students’ hands and converts these images to a numerical sequence. “Once that palm is scanned the image is taken and broken down into 1′s and 0′s. It is a unique number for that student,” said Reggie Cancel, Network Manager of the School District.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/25/hawthorne-schools-speed-up-lunch-line-with-palm-scanners/