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title: Paying For Stuff With Your Heartbeat Is Now A Thing — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/paying-for-stuff-with-your-heartbeat-is-now-a-thing/
date: 2015-08-13
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# Paying For Stuff With Your Heartbeat Is Now A Thing

The Nymi Band is like a contactless credit card, which only works when you (and only you) are wearing it. It uses a sensor to record the electrical activity of the wearer’s heart, the same kind of thing a hospital uses during an ECG.