Travel technology has come a long way in the past few years. There are digital bag tags from Lufthansa, suitcases with built-in charging portals, and robots to bring you hotel snacks (and park your car). A biometric development, however, may be the most far-out of them all: the ability to travel without a ticket, boarding pass, or passport thanks to a small, rice-sized chip embedded beneath the skin.
Crazy? Maybe. But the technological development has its adherents. Created by a company called Dangerous Things, the near-field communication (NFC) chip allows passengers to load personal information that can be recognized by NFC-compliant devices—think tapping your iPhone at a checkout when using Apple Pay, or scanning digital boarding passes on smartphones at the airport. And while the development isn't necessarily new news (a 2013 Indiegogo campaign raised $30,619), a Dutch tech entrepreneur named Andreas Sjöström recently used the chip in an experiment with Scandinavian Airlines at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport. He sailed through without issue, becoming the first person to use an embedded chip to board a flight.
Wow...now that's convenient. I assume many would jump at the opportunity not realizing this is just part of the conditioning process.
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