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I've Got You Under My Skin
Filed in archive Technology by on May 17, 2006
RFID implanted in Barcelona bar
Often enough I talked about "the club in Barcelona where people use implanted RFID chips as an entry ticket and to pay the bill." Here is the full report by CNN's Robyn Curnow live from the Baja Beach Club, Barcelona:

...I am being micro chipped at the Baja Beach Club

The process of gaining membership is like taking part in a bizarre social experiment or a bad Bond movie.

Surrounded by the dank bar smells of fresh cigarette smoke and beer, the nurse gives me four numbing injections in my upper left arm.

Five minutes later, my skin is tingling, which means I do not feel the hard pressure of insertion, the sharp jab, or the deep push to insert the microchip, deep in the upper recesses of my fatty tissue -- but I do bleed. The wound is covered with a Band Aid and I am handed a beer.

Read on

Add-on: a german TV-movie (real player) about the club and a german guy with implanted RFID who uses it mostly as a key...

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