I don’t know about you but, having another plastic card in the wallet just ends up throwing my back out of alignment. The Kanagawa Institute of Technology near Tokyo apparently feels the same way and has decided to incorporate identification cards into mobile handsets starting next April. All new students will carry an ID on their phone that lets them register for classes, open locked doors and surf the Internet for school-related information. Students can also use it to buy from the cafeteria, shops, vending machines and to receive discounts at some movie theaters.
“No student forgets to take a cellphone with him, even if he forgets his textbook,” university president Kosei Oguchi said on Friday.
[via Yahoo News]
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Anonymous
Jan 6, 2006 at 9:23 am
What a bad idea.
How long will it be until your cellphone is the mandatory method of identification? Online services are already starting to use it for this.
Not everyone wants to carry a cellphone around. My drivers license doesn’t betray my current location to anyone (yet).
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