Pay With a Wave of Your Hand?

MSN Money ^ | 9/11/2009 | CreditCards.com

[GiovannaNicoletta]

An implantable chip could allow you to charge purchases or even start your car. It'd be convenient, to be sure. But would it be too creepy?

It's a simple concept, really: You inject a miniature radio frequency identifier the size of a grain of rice between your thumb and forefinger and, with a wave of your hand, unlock doors, turn on lights, start your car or pay for your drinks at an ultrachic nightspot.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Where have I seen this mentioned before?

[SandWMan]

I cannot, and will not take the mark.

[FrdmLvr]

hmm....Something about a mark of a something or other.....

[Mr. Silverback]

But would it be too creepy?

It wouldn't be creepy at all, if it weren't for the whole Revelation thing. That shifts it form "That might be cool" to "Aw, hell no!"

[Cicero]

What happens if someone drains your account while pretending to shake hands with you?

[stockpirate]

Cannot buy or sell except they have the mark of the beast.....No thanks I die on my feet thank you very much.

They can also track you where ever you go, it is the reason they did away with analog TV.

[Buckeye McFrog]

all the more reason for thieves to just whack your hand off at the wrist and then run around town charging things

[Brad's Gramma]

Where have I seen this mentioned before?

Oh, ya know...your Bible.....

[edpc]

a miniature radio frequency identifier the size of a grain of rice between your thumb and forefinger

I'd be for it if it was between my second and third finger. That way, I could live long and prosper.

[unkus]

What happens if someone drains your account while pretending to shake hands with you?
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LOL Good one.

[bgill]

I have a finger for it but won’t say which in polite company.

[mamelukesabre]

mork says “nanoo, nanoo”

[FrankR]

Talk about complaints...Portnoy could go into a pay toilet and run up a $5000 tab....just sayin’

[sionnsar]

Just wave your hand and say, “Make it so!”

[sonofagun]

I never thought I'd be making 90% of my purchases with plastic either.

While I doubt these will be implanted, I can certainly envision having RFID in my wallet to pay for my groceriesas I walk out the door, to log into my PC, to open my house when I get home or to start my car as I approach it.

The technology is here. Now it's just a matter of selling it to the public.

[jiggyboy]

You could be buying stuff a hundred times a day and not know it.

[Cementjungle]

What happens if someone drains your account while pretending to shake hands with you?

Or chops off your hand so they can steal your car or access your bank account.

[sionnsar]

And Big Obama's tracking stations would record your every move as you went about your day.

You wouldn't need this anymore.

[FromLori]

[NonValueAdded]

Early tests of the product revealed a problem where the sensors were just too darned sensitive. Two Italians having an argument just outside the door of the store drained their bank accounts in a matter of minutes ...

[mamelukesabre]

If we forget about the whole bible thing for a moment...this is still a bad idea. The economic crises we are currently in should be a lesson to us. What we DO NOT NEED is INTANGIBLE MONEY. That will only worsen our economic plight.

I’m starting to think an outright ban on all credit cards is a good idea, and maybe even paper money. Only metallic coin money from now on. bring back the eagles and double eagles and eisenhower dollars.

[Global2010]

Have you stayed at the De Luxe Hotel too?

[HiTech RedNeck]

I agree, no. Besides the biblical implications, this would be asking for some bizarre mutilation crimes.

[deport]

Yep pretty much there now. Just don’t have the implant. Drive through toll devices with automatic billing, swipe your debit/credit card for payment, read your finger/hand print for access, telecommunications keep you connected, etc. etc. etc.

[wally_bert]

[HiTech RedNeck]

The government’s anti-terrorism people would groan. Right now if you walk into an airport and smack down cash you will be refused a ticket even if you show ID.

[seawolf101]

[CapnJack]

Pay With a Wave of Your Hand?

... Or maybe someone elses!

[Future Snake Eater]

It makes me wonder if The Mark is going to truly stand out or if it'll be something like this. On the face of it, I like this idea, but the possible Biblical implications make me hesitate to embrace the idea.

Will we know for sure when we see The Mark?

[Miss Behave]

Pay With a Wave of Your Hand?

Sometimes I have to smile and wink too.

[mamelukesabre]

I’m starting to wonder if the government is not terrorists themselves. I can’t believe I just said that.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Their aspirations are not as radical as the Taliban, but some of them seem to be as easily offended as the Taliban.

[norwaypinesavage]

"The technology is here. Now it's just a matter of selling it to the public."

My 10 year old car has this technology. Whenever I walk near the car (carrying the keys) it unlocks. Whenever I walk away, it locks.

This feature is a royal pain in the butt! I never know for sure if it is working unless I also activate the blow horn when locking feature, and it is always beeping when I walk around the house, or outside. Fortunately, it has an off switch, so I never use it.

It has one interesting feature. In order to save battery life, the key shuts off after it stops moving around for 20 minutes. It wakes up when it starts moving again. This means that if I accidental lock the keys in the car it can be opened again in 20 minutes. I just wait until the key shuts off and then shake the bumper. The key 'wakes up' and turns on. The car says: 'My master just arrived, unlock the doors'!

[mamelukesabre]

Seems to me it’s got to be something rather obviously anti-christian. Otherwise how could we be damned for accepting it?

But what do I know? I don’t even understand the concept of the holy trinity. I’ve decided we’re all just stumbling around in the dark when it comes to religion.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A grocery nearby me had a “touch to pay” system for a while. I don’t recall complaints that it didn’t work, but it went away.

[mamelukesabre]

Thanks. Now I know how easy it is to steal your car.

[visualops]

I think that has more to do with them not wanting to have a cash drawer, which I can understand.

[Mr. Jazzy]

And for those folks who have no limbs, they can have the ID device implanted in their HEADS! What a great idea!

It can all be based on the new internet protocols, IP 6! That way you can literally have billions of IP addresses for each individual and all their internet appliances!

[GiovannaNicoletta]

God tells us that the mark will go in either a person's right hand or his forehead and no one will be able to buy or sell without this mark.

The fact that the idea for implanting chips in the hand for the purpose of buying is being floated is highly significant.

[Iron Munro]

Try going your own way, dropping out, moving to Galtsville, not buying government mandated “insurance”, buying more than your approved allotment of gasoline or selling a used rifle (or anything else) for cash once you are sporting an implanted government I.D. chip.

How long before the government demands implantation at birth? (for our own health and safety, of course)

How long before it becomes a felonious crime against the state to attempt removal or alteration of implanted chips?

How long before the chips are programmed to transmit a warning if any attempt is made to remove them?

[ColdWater]

They can also track you where ever you go, it is the reason they did away with analog TV.

And the reason they gave us cell phones, also.

[Secret Agent Man]

I don’t want this crap.

[Overtaxed Patriot]

I wonder what would happen to that little chip if you were in one of those MRI machines.

[Overtaxed Patriot]

Will we know for sure when we see The Mark?

My understanding is that The Mark take effect until the anti-Christ comes on the scene. I expect believers to be raptured out of here before that time because they won't be deceived by the anti-Christ and will therefore have to be gone. Now Obama sure seems like the guy, but I'm pretty sure he isn't the one. Just a precursor to the real one.

[WorkingClassFilth]

What do you produce? Maybe we can barter . . .

[thecodont]

Try going your own way, dropping out, moving to Galtsville, not buying government mandated “insurance”, buying more than your approved allotment of gasoline or selling a used rifle (or anything else) for cash once you are sporting an implanted government I.D. chip.

Remember the movie Idiocracy? The gov't gave everyone a barcode "tattoo" for ID.

[HereInTheHeartland]

A mark to buy and sell.
I have heard that phrase somewhere?

[mkjessup]

I'd be for it if it was between my second and third finger. That way, I could live long and prosper.

It's more likely that with the implantation of these chips that the Vulcan curse will be invoked as an 'extra', i.e. "Die Quick and Go Bankrupt"

[jiggyboy]

How long before the chips are programmed to transmit a warning if any attempt is made to remove them?

Mister Optimist! If it decides you're tampering with it, it just starts squirting out the poison or the 50KV.

[mkjessup]

It can all be based on the new internet protocols, IP 6! That way you can literally have billions of IP addresses for each individual and all their internet appliances!

They can chip my USB devices when they pry them from my "COLD DEAD HANDS" ;)