Personally, I hate carrying coins in my pocket, it?s dirty and heavy but it?s inevitable in North America. Errrr?. On the other hand, it?s normal to see a cellphone is being used as credit card to buy stuff in Japan, like the M-Wallet system feature found in Motorola Mobile?s payment system. Over 10 years ago in Hong Kong, its government already launched the Octopus Card where you can buy almost anything using it - even most kids have one.
Lets talk about this USB thingy. In Korea, they have the credit stick. Shinhan Card, Korea?s biggest Bank rolled out Korea?s first ever USB type credit card recently. (It?ll take 10 years to see in North America? joking) Unfortunately, thisUSB media is strictly as credit card system only, it is not a portable storage device. The system sounds really neat to me!