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A British-Polish company, Walletmor, has started selling chips that can be implanted in the skin and work as a “payment microchip”. It is a miniature device, smaller than a grain of rice and when you bring your hand closer to a payment machine, it will have the same function as a payment card.
The implant can be used to make any type of payment, as long as the business accepts “contactless payments” , that is, those where you do not have to insert the credit card payment at a machine. This was stated by Wojtek Paprota, the founder of Walletmor.
This is high-frequency, short-range wireless communication technology that allows two devices exchange information. It is like the NFC that smartphones also use or what they call “near field communication”. That is, it is not exactly the radio frequency technology of credit cards.
Patrick Paumen, is a Dutchman who carries the implant in his hand, and says to cause a sensation every time he approaches his hand to a bank terminal to pay.
“The reactions of the cashiers are priceless” says Paumen when narrating his experience, who also assures that the procedure is not painful.
For its part, the company Walletmor has insisted on explaining the benefits of this technology. And on his Instagram account he explains how the implant works
There is no doubt that all the answers to the possible fear of implanting a chip that works as a payment method can be resolved if you contact them directly. All the information is in the company link: Walletmor, the world’s first payment implant.