Before I start, I know Coronavirus is a virus not bacteria…
Shopping trolleys and other surfaces use antibacterial coatings, money is a vector of disease, cards often sit in our trousers next to our groins (sorry for the image you now have…). Behold, anti-bacterial coatings on Monzo cards. Now that we’re all clean freaks surely this is the ONLY way to go.
I don’t know about you but I’m not licking my Monzo card. Also aren’t most cards in wallets, so it would be the wallets in trousers next to dirty parts that would need the coating instead anyway?
|'m all for keeping safe and healthy, but doubt protecting a card would have much impact. I mean, mobile phones.
What we REALLY need is a hovering, shielded, card that follows us around. The shield can be run of a low power chip, and will provide a completely air-tight environment for the card. With the power of our minds we can instruct the card to move ‘tap’ when needed.
I think what we really need, is an instrument for payment that is single-use only. That way you minimise the possible contamination routes, since you and all the shop keepers wouldn’t have touched the same one a million times.
I mean, sure you’d probably need to keep track of who you are paying what - so maybe you’d need to write on it with pen or something, the amount you want to pay?
And I reckon we could make it out of paper! Stop all that plastic getting into the ocean you see.
It might take a bit longer for shop-keeps to get their money though.
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phildawson
(Sorry, I will have to escalate this.)
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