A local firm in River Falls, Wisconsin, made good today on its vow to embed employees with microchips.
Forty workers at Three Square Market got tiny rice-sized microchips embedded in their hands.
The chip ceremony was held in the company's cafeteria.
The entire process took about a minute. Osterlund, a local tattoo artist, cleaned the skin, found a spot in the hand to pinch, then asked the employee to inhale and exhale as he installed the chip, and placed a band-aid over the spot.
Company officials said it is a way to bypass using company badges and corporate log-ons to computers. Now, they can just have their hands read by a reader, similar to using a smartphone to pay for goods.
The company wants to go cashless, as iPhone users do with Apple Pay. Except in this case, consumers use their hand instead of a smartphone to pay.
The chip is not a tracker and does not have GPS in it, so the boss can't track your movements, company officials say.
The chips come from Biohax Sweden, a company that says it has nearly 3,000 people using it in Europe.
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