If you spend hours every week fumbling around in your wallet for the right bits of plastic – this might be of interest to you.
An office block in Sweden has implanted computer chips under the skin of 400 workers so they no longer have to carry ID cards.
Imagine the possibilities – no more sifting through 20+ cards at the till in the supermarket, no more cancelling cards you think you have lost, only to find them in your coat pocket or at the bottom of your bag where you looked in the first place.
You could have chips for loyalty cards, chips for bank accounts, maybe even chips for getting in and out of your house! Think of all the extra hours you would have in a day to do other things!
The ID scheme at the Epicenter office block in Sweden allows its volunteers to enter the building and use the photocopier with the swipe of their hand.
Hannes Sjoblad, who is chief disruption officer at the office development, told the BBC: “We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped — the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip.”
I know for a fact that schools in my region already use a fingerprinting cashless system for pupils to pay for their school dinners.
Being one of those people who can never find the right card in their wallet, I welcome this latest use of technology. Even I should be able to find my own hand easily enough!