Welcome to the future?
A Wisconsin technology company is offering its
employees microchip implants that can be used to scan into the building
and purchase food at work.
Three Square Market has over 50 employees who
plan to have the devices implanted. The tiny chip, which uses RFID technology
or Radio-Frequency Identification, can be implanted between the thumb and
forefinger within seconds.
Employees are not required to get the
microchips and there is no GPS tracking.
"It's the next thing that's inevitably
going to happen, and we want to be a part of it," Three Square Market
Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said.
The company, which is based in River
Falls, Wisc., envisions the rice-sized micro chip allowing employees to
easily pay for items, access the building and their computers all with a scan
of their hand.
"We foresee the use of RFID technology to
make purchases in our office break room market, open doors, use copy machines,
log into our office computers, unlock
phones, share business cards, store medical/health information, and pay
at other RFID terminals," Westby said in a company
statement. "Eventually, this technology will become standardized
allowing you to use this as your passport, driving license, credit card,
etc."
The company is partnering with Swedish
company BioHax International, which already has many "chipped"
employees.
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