A Credit card that only works when spoken to

Spinner Birmingham, UK

April 2004 edited April 2004 in Science & Tech

A credit card that will not work unless it hears its owner's voice could become an important weapon in the fight against fraud.

A prototype built by engineers at Beepcard in Santa Monica, California, represents the first attempt to pack a microphone, a loudspeaker, a battery and a voice-recognition chip into a standard-sized credit card.

Source: NewsScientist

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