Bank Card Chip Implant To Hand

[barry1010]

A company launched this idea a year or so ago but it didn't take off. I would definitely have it done if it was properly supported, the chip itself is not much bigger than a single grain of rice.
I would have two chips, one in each hand. One for my debit card and the other for my credit card

Would you have it done, assuming there was a way to reprogram the chip if your bank details changed?

[bookbinder]

Do you mean that the idea is that you have a microchip implanted in each hand? I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.

[Hopkirk]

Can't I have it in my forehead?

[elliemay1]

No, the only chips I would have are the ones you eat!

[retrocop]

I have enough life saving FOs placed in my body. No more thank you. Those chips are on my plate or in my electrical circuits.

[douglas9401]

Sanhander are said to be interested.

[ToraToraTora]

An American, Japanese, and a Nigerian were sitting naked in the sauna. Suddenly there is a beeping sound. The American presses his forearm and others look at him questioningly. “That’s my pager,” he says. “I have a microchip under the skin of my arm.” “A few minutes later a phone rings. The Japanese lift his palm to his ear. When he finishes he explains,” that’s my mobile phone. I have a micro chip in my hand.” The Nigerian feeling decidedly low-tech but not to be out done decided he had to do something just as impressive. He steps out of the sauna and goes to the toilet. He returns with a piece of toilet paper hanging from his butt. The others raised their eye brows and said, “Wow” what’s that? “I’m getting a fax,” he explains.

[retrocop]

Classic gold TTT. :-)

[JimF]

I can understand technology in the body for things like replacement joints, pacemakers etc, but is this not a step too far?

Muggers with machetes ready to chop their victim's arm off...

[Barsel]

I wonder if we seniors can get chipped with our name and address in case we can't remember either!

[barry1010]

That will be compulsory, in the forehead so they can be quickly scanned when handed in as lost property :D

[barry1010]

Jim, I think it will be easier for those muggers to bop you over the head to nick your cards and phone out of your pockets than hack at your arms with a huge machete

[ToraToraTora]

Implants won't be necessary, a simple finger print will do, even now connect to a paypal account and you can pay with your finger anyway.

[JimF]

Barry, I think you have completely missed the point of my post...

[barry1010]

I often do that, Jim. The fault is always mine

[JimF]

The point being that the chip would replace the plastic card, so there'd be no plastic card for the mugger to take...

[barry1010]

But the person with the card would be the easier target.
I now have images of mugger waving my severed hand over the paypoint in Tescos

[Chairman2001]

|||| waving my severed hand over the paypoint in Tescos ||||

P M S L

[nailedit]

//Can't I have it in my forehead?//
Well Elon Musk's Neurolink brain-computer interface chip has just been approved for clinical trials in humans, so yes!

Frankenstein science...

[dustypuss]

I've had a chip on my shoulder for years.

[nailedit]

I'm a well balanced person...
Got one on both shoulders!

I'll get me coat.