Does anyone know of any new forms of currency designed to someday replace paper money and coins. I'm doing a report on it and some help would be appreciated. Can be from any(developed)country.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Look at all the palstic and pass keys that are coming out. I can not say that those are currency, per se, but cashless they are.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Aren't you about twenty years too late here?
(please do my homework)
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
I believe in Japan they were doing a limited testing of a microchip implant in the back of the hand that held your account balances and such.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
There was a featured article on Wikipedia a while back about a card in Hong Kong that started out as a transit pass IIRC but is now used for everyday purchases and the like.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
Let there be Whuffie.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
It's called an ATM card. Here I can buy groceries at a supermarket, go to the liquer store and buy a bottle, go to the bar and pay my tab with it, pick up some smokes from the corner store, and pay for my hotel room with it. There is almost nowhere you can't use one here, I hardly ever carry cash anymore.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Me neither. Except we call them Debit Cards. And now we're all supposed to use Chip'n'PIN, so it's safer, allegedly. Provided the money's in your account, you're laughing - or I will be, until my wife looks at our statement and finds out I paid �35 for a rare bottle of Laphroaig.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
There was something on the news a couple of weeks ago about using a fingerprint scanner instead of a credit card, but its essentialy the same I guess - heres a BBC page on it : Shoppers can pay by fingerprint Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
The card fraud rate has fallen for the first time in years, so the chip and pin thing seems to be working. Plus, Patrick Stewart is the one who told us to do it, and he has super sexy voice.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Here I can buy groceries at a supermarket, go to the liquer store and buy a bottle, go to the bar and pay my tab with it, pick up some smokes from the corner store, and pay for my hotel room with it."
You still need cash for the hooker, though.
Posted by Shakaar (Member # 1782) on :
Japanese seem to still really like the cash & coin, most still pay in cash for everyday items rather than use credit or debit cards though many have plastic too- few use them as compared to Americans. Fewer Japanese are in debt as a result.
There is the plastic with the EM stripe like the credit/debit, the RF tag emplanted in the body, or more commonly in a nice plastic card (works the same without having to be implanted)... there's the "biometrics" Which is a wide ranging term meaning the measuring characteristics of the body such as the fingerprint, the retinal pattern in the eye, or a the exact configuration of the face (that one still is a bit flawed) for identification... *ponders*
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN:
"Here I can buy groceries at a supermarket, go to the liquer store and buy a bottle, go to the bar and pay my tab with it, pick up some smokes from the corner store, and pay for my hotel room with it."
You still need cash for the hooker, though.
Just do like Quagmire from Family Guy and swipe it through her cheeks.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I read just yesterday on the subway Metro-paper that an (I think) italian club has started with implants, a small pod stuck into your arm, that is rechargeable with money and acts as an ID document, letting VIP customers get in quicker, and pay for drinks by sweeping their forearm over a small device at the bar. 125 euro it costs, with a 100 of that already being in the device for you to drink up.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote: until my wife looks at our statement and finds out I paid �35 for a rare bottle of Laphroaig.
Some things are worth getting hell over, maybe if you share it with her, she won't be so mad.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I've told her it's my anniversary present. Maybe I'll get her a bottle of Old Pulteney, that's her favourite single malt (and also the first one she ever tried, in a hotel in Ayr, when she decided that since I was going to drag her round a bunch of distilleries she might as well get into whisky). Tastes of chocolate, I kid you not.
Could have been worse I suppose, I was oringally looking for a bottle of Glenfiddich Havana Reserve, but that's twice the price. And I need to find another favourite, Glenfarclas 105 Cask Strength. Spicy!
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Wow, this is a lot of info. Thanks for the help guys.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Lee maybe you can work on her to let you buy this. Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Only 1937? I'd have thought there was older than that. I've got a bloody* handkerchief that's older than that!
*Well, not literally bloody, but metaphorically at any rate. It's a commemorative handkerchief made to celebrate the alliance between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in 1936. A relative was in Italy at the time and bought it, I'm afraid to think why. It's probably worth something, but I'd hate to sell it in case some neo-Nazi fuck bought it. And I suspect eBay would take a dim view of the selling of Nazi memorabilia on their site. . .
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Ebay doesn't care.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Some people take a dim view of Nazi Memorabilia. To me, it's History. I had a replica Hitler Youth dagger with swastika's on it. I wasn't a "neo-Nazi fuck" I had it for it's historical signifigance. [sp?]
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Bah, poser. You talk like a nazi, you wear the trinkets of a nazi - but this can be imitated, however. You lack a vital quality found in all nazis. True nazis have no hair, and I sense much hair on you. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your hair and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :