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Combine all your Credit Cards Securely into One

Posted in Cool, Tech by Dan at 11:35 am
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icache.jpg Enough with the credit cards! Between who has the best ‘reward system’ and certain establishments taking only one type of plastic I’m stuck carrying around eight cards (Two AMEX cards, a Mastercard, Visa, Debit, Business AMEX, Business Debit) and I think many other people do the same as well.

A product called “iCache” (Nope it is not an Apple product) hopes to put an end to al the madness. According to the iCache website this little guy enables you to register all your credit cards online, using biometric security as a security measure (note the fingerprint reader on the device). The iCache then digitally creates the card you need at a specific time. The ability to carry one device sounds wonderful, but I wonder about trusting one service with ALL my credit card numbers, and also the willingness of the credit card companies to allow a credit card to be duplicated, I’m sure there is a line in thier customer service agreement that forbids it. What are your thoughts?

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One Response to “Combine all your Credit Cards Securely into One”

  1. E P says:

    Madness! It’s a little credit card duplicating machine…!!

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