With the introduction of the Purewrist pre-paid contactless wearable, people in the USA now have the option to convert the contactless payment chip into a implantable narrow flex wedge form factor with the Dangerous Things payment device conversion service;
The chip itself comes in a small card format designed to be placed into a wearable wristband;
We can extract that chip and attach a new antenna to is, then encapsulate it in our flex biopolymer for easy installation.
Damn, this thread is gonna explode.
That is so cool.
I’m both envious and happy about not being in the US right now.
For one that’s just really amazing…for one I already spend money too easily ^^’
oh… now that IS interesting… if they’re setup for contactless payments via mastercard, in theory it could work in Canada… might be a pain to reload depending on how that process works I guess. time to do some reading!
Oh boy. Titan coupon round 1?
Ooooo I’m interested. Since these are prepaid do they still last the full 3-4 years?
More info here
You use the app to reload the card and it is available in the. Canadian Google app store. A quick google shows a fee Canadian news articles about it, bit only from small no-name sources. I’m tempted to get the wristband and test it… If it works, maybe I’ll send it and a transit pass down for upgrades …
Edit:. Looks like the wrist would work here but has a 3% fee on international purchases…
Has anybody real photo of this card ? 
Like this?
How is the range?
I imagine the original card would go through skin hoodie and jacket. At least the vimpaygo can do that.
How about the wedge?
Real life tests coming soon
Maybe a dumb question but I was curious as to how the purewrist solution is any different than say my Citi mastercard which has tap to pay? Could I just send in my CC and have that converted to an implant?
It’s the antenna. It has to be specific to the chip, and Amal only has a specific selection of them available. This one was convenient because he already had an ideal antenna.
Also the fact that normal cards with dual interface (contact and contactless) are seriously a pain in the ass to get at the contactless antenna leads from the card. It’s technically possible but you also end up with a huge implant anyway because the entire silicon die is under the contact interface.
Do we have any information on expiry for these? I thought I saw someone claim that they were able to do a wristband with a custom expiry of 99 years later, was that ever a thing?
I’m almost certain they still have like a 3 year expiry. That’s why the website says too. Atleast purewrist
You did see it, but that was iCard buddy, not purewrist
Yeah but…
What I got from that. A 2099 card is not doable, but a 9 year expiry is doable.
That’s a serious move in terms of acceptability vs the current 3 year expiry. I’d probably pass on a 3 year card, but might would go for a 9 year. What’s the chance of PureWrist or some other company being coerced into setting it to 9 years?
