As technology advances at a rapid pace, the idea of skin-implantable microchips is slowly becoming a reality. Although it may sound like an idea straight out of a Black Mirror episode, a company has now developed a microchip that you can choose to implant in your hand to, well, make payment truly wirelessly. Let’s take a look at the details below.
The idea of a skin-implantable computer chip is not a new idea, per se. Last year, we saw a Swedish company develop a similar microchip that can store and show a user’s COVID-19 vaccination certificate. Now, a British-Polish digital payments company named Walletmor is selling a unique, skin-implantable microchip that can enable users to make NFC-based wireless payments.
Walletmor says that after becoming the first company to offer a skin-implantable payment chip commercially last year, it has sold over 500 of them over time. One customer named Patrick Paumen, who got an implant in his hand, says he is able to wireless pay at stores with his hand, without needing a smartphone or a payment card.
