For years, unlocking your devices felt like a tug-of-war between convenience and security. Face recognition stumbled if you wore sunglasses. Fingerprint scanners balked when your hands were sweaty or greasy. Passwords? A relic, and an insecure one at that. Yet here we are, watching palm recognition quietly outmaneuver every other biometric tech on the block.
I was curious, so I had to look it up. Turns out, Aristotle found and already written treatise on the idea of palm reading… I know it’s not exactly palm “finger” printing, but even our ancestors knew palms were unique.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry