'Microchip manicure' turns your nails into business cards
CNN
A beauty salon in Dubai is giving new meaning to the phrase "chipped nails." Lanour Beauty Lounge in is offering a tiny microchip for customers' fingernails that can be used as a digital business card.
The chips can have information embedded that allows them to be used as a digital business card, or to pass on information such as an Instagram handle. They use near field communication technology to connect with mobile devices. "We install the information that you want, like your name, your mobile number, your social media accounts and website as well," salon founder Nour Makarem told CNN.Venezuelan authorities are investigating opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for alleged treason after she expressed support for a US bipartisan bill that seeks to block Washington from doing business with any entity that has commercial ties with the government of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.
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