yup, I’ve seen something on TV yesterday night (on the news) that seemed pretty close to that already.
There’s a discotheque (??) in Spain that implants in 5 minutes with the help of a seringe, a microchip no bigger than the size of a grain of rice. It’s implanted in the arm, somewhere under the shoulder muscle and it’s used by the VIP bouncers to check who’s allowed in the VIP box or not. They use a little scan device that reads the chip, and if it is recognized by the program, a picture and name goes on the screen. Then the person with the chip is allowed in.
What’s more, is that those VIPs give money to replenish a virtual wallet, and the waitresses use that same scanning machine to deduce the amounts of the drinks…
So, yeah. I guess the technology is badly going down the mercantile slope…
for those french-speaking people… http://videos.tf1.fr/video/news/lesjt/ > journal de 20 heures, 21 juillet, reportage intitulé “une puce pour rentrer en boite de nuit”