Could your fingernails be used as credit cards?

Researchers in Japan have managed to carve tiny numbers and pictures into a fingernail, in the form of microscopic dots burnt into the nail by laser.

The team has only managed the feat on nail clippings so far, but they hope the process could one day be used to securely carry information on live fingertips. It might even replace credit cards, they suggest, although you'd have to get your information carved in every six months or so as the nail grows out.

Yoshio Hayasaki of the University of Tokushima and colleagues say a single fingernail could accommodate something like 800 kilobytes of data. That won't provide room for a high-resolution photo, but would be enough to store basic identification information.

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Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads

Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Sounds like yall are for having id chips implanted in your body? It doesnt matter though, soon enough Im sure a law will be passed requiring everyone to have one installed for "national secruity reasons".

Sounds like yall are for having id chips implanted in your body? It doesnt matter though, soon enough Im sure a law will be passed requiring everyone to have one installed for "national secruity reasons".

You're pointing at a big problem here. I refuse to have something like that implanted if I'm not in absolute controll over when and what information will be accessed by whom or what. IMO this can only be used like something like a PIN pass with a code that's only known by you.