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RFID Implants for Spanish Revelers

Posted by michael on from the also,-the-spca-will-return-you-to-your-owner-if-lost dept.

WWW/X writes "USA Today reports that clubbers in Barcelona are getting drunk and being implanted on site with RFID chips in order to pay their bills without carrying around bulky items such as credit cards. The article states that the implant can go anywhere, however it does not state whether anyone has chosen their forehead." The club's website describes the program (link in spanish).

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  1. SO cool. by Hanna's+Goblin+Toys · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok this is so yesterday. I got my waver at Baja, people, and I can't love it enough. It's phat because I can totally wave it in front of any of the bartenders and like bam I have a drink. It's even better in the summer because it's like totally hot right now (third day of this awful humidity) and so I can wear like anything hot that I want and I don't have to carry a PURSE or those lame KEYCHAIN WALLETS and stuff. So anyway at the library once this guy was all freaking out on me about how I got "implanted" and I was going to be "tracked and monitored" and said "don't you read Slashdot?". He was gross and I ran away but that's how I found out about this site.

    Anyway I've read here long enough to know that no one here is going to want a waver but that's cool because I'm just guessing here that only uncool ugly people are going to get all wigged about being cool and not having to carry a wallet. Which just means more hot guys at Baja for me.

    Smack that ass, boyfriend!

    1. Re:SO cool. by trentblase · · Score: 5, Funny

      Any technology that encourages hot club-going women to show more skin is fine by me. Plus, it makes it so much easier to stalk them!

  2. No prob by grub · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get RFID tag installed.

    Don your tinfoil hat.

    Drink.

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  3. Ouch! by jmcwork · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is also rumored that many Barcelona escort services are looking into this method of payment for services.

    1. Re:Ouch! by swb · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder if they have the granularity for pay-per-thrust. Most slashdotters could then consider their "quick reaction time" to be a financial advantage.

  4. Idiot Sauron by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    "How about the option to put it in, for example: A ring

    D'oh! If Sauron had remembered to embed an RFID chip in that damn ring when he first had it made, it would have saved him and many others thousands of years of "looking for lost jewelry" trouble.

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  5. So what... by UncleBiggims · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wave a body part and get a drink? So what! Girls have had this power since forever. And for them the drink is free.