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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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*
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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.
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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.
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