Tuesday, 25. November 2003
Topic: DOPE HEAD - on November 25, 2003 at 1:59:40 PM CET
When Cash Is Only Skin Deep
A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin Applied Digital Solutions CEO Scott Silverman said he believes the company's VeriChip -- a subdermal microchip that uses radio frequency signals to broadcast an identification number to a scanner -- could someday replace credit cards. Under Silverman's plan, rather than swiping a bank card to make purchases, micro-chipped customers would scan themselves using special readers.
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