Posted on 04/28/2022 9:14:49 AM PDT by algore
For the price of £230, London tech company Walletmor will implant your hand with a microchip that can be used to make contactless purchases.
If you’re down for a little augmentation and like the idea of becoming a walking wallet, all that’s required is a visit to a Walletmor specialist and install its online banking service on a phone or tablet.
The implants themselves are around the size of a grain of rice and are made from three elements; the NFC Chip, which acts as the hard drive where your account data is stored and encrypted, the NFC Antenna, that connects the chip to card machines, and the Biopolymer, responsible for protecting the other two components from any damages.
They’re usable anywhere you can find contactless card machines, and have the same £100 single payment cap put on standard debit cards.
It sounds a little barmy, granted, to resort to getting physically chipped to forgo carrying a wallet or minimise the risk of losing a card on a heavy night out, but it is becoming more popular as a concept.
Reportedly, Walletmor has already attended to over 500 customers that are now walking around with this superpower unbeknownst to the rest of us. Perhaps it’s time we start questioning whether this may be the natural progression (pun intended) in customer convenience with technology.
A 2021 survey of more than 4,000 people across the UK and the EU revealed that 51% would consider getting chipped if it became normalised, and concerns regarding personal security or fintech tracking could be sated.
Contactless has become a default way for younger generations to pay for goods and services – to the extent that we can do our entire grocery shop without interacting with staff at all. Throughout social distancing regulations imposed during the height of the pandemic, the popularity of digital wallet platforms grew exponentially too.
Having once relinquished carrying cash for debit cards, and now debit cards for our phones, will we soon cut out the middleman altogether and integrate payment systems within our bodies?
Does it come with a free lead lined glove?
Yeah, a thing if you want to go to hell. That’s mark of the beast if I’ve ever seen it.
And if you run away from home they can scan you and see who your owner is.
Beastly!
So...if I’m at the store and run into a pal of mine and we shake hands across her basket, will I inadvertently pay for everything in it?
Not for me. It’s guaranteed that this will mysteriously and secretly gain other functions and we will not be told until one day they surprise us and tell us that it’s actually a personal identifier and links to the master database with all your financial and personal information.
I trust government like I trust a hungry snake. Come to think of it, there’s not much difference.
Lol Perfect!
You could, at least the first $124.46 of it (at today's exchange rate.)
A completely stupid idea. When someone hacks those things they become instantly obsolete. No updates possible.
No no no!
It was the barcode that was the mark of the beat!
How soon we forget!
Lots of forcibly amputated hands. And lots of chip readers will surround you and steal your money(contactless). You might as well walk down the street with your money taped onto your clothes and ride a crowded bus.
It sounds a little barmy, granted, to resort to getting physically chipped to forgo carrying a wallet or minimise the risk of losing a card on a heavy night out, but it is becoming more popular as a concept.
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And if your chip card is revoked, the Yakuza come and repo your pinky.
we shake hands across her basket,
That sounds naughty
Wait till they declare it law. All other forms of business transacting will be illegal: cash, bartering, cards, etc.
I can see them making that mandatory for the elderly. Ya-know, incase grandpa wanders off.
Some days, I might be in favor of a Retinal Scan, no chips, just a retinal scan and a finger print.
No driver’s license, health care cards, pharmacy cards, , auto insurance cards and a photo id to prove that this 83 year old is over 21, and our/my monthly visit to our safety deposit box and to get 5’s and 10’s for tips from a teller.
“Awww, wassa problem wid a liddel chip, anyway?”- Marco D’Beast
Think of how convenient this would be! Sign me up!
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