Emilia Lau (22) from Brisbane in Australia may have found a special “hack” for shopping trips in the future.
Lau, who works as a film producer on a daily basis, has shared a TikTok video on the account @emz_imagery which has attracted a lot of attention.
Tests the barcode
In the video clip, she gets a temporary tattoo of a barcode with the text “Made in Australia” below.
– So I got a barcode tattoo. I decided to do this, she writes in the video.
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Then she does something quite clever – she tests the barcode in the self-service checkout at her local Woolworths, a retail company in Australia.
The cash register beeps
Emilia tries a number of cash machines without getting a response – but when she gets to the last one, you actually hear a loud beep.
TEMPORARY TATTIS: Emilia’s tattoo is admittedly not permanent, but looks completely like a real barcode. Photo: TikTok / @ emz_imagery
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Of course, the machine could not read the barcode, because it was not coded against any items in the Woolworths store.
– Invalid. Asking for assistance from the staff, Lau was told when she tried to “check in” herself as an item.
Ended up in the newspapers
The TikTok video was picked up by several tabloid online newspapers.
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– Why am I in the newspapers ?, she asks with a laugh in a later video – obviously surprised that her “tattoo” has gone viral.
EMILIA LAU: On a daily basis, Lau works as a film producer in Brisbane, but this time she has ended up in the spotlight for the barcode stunt at Woolworths. Photo: TikTok / @ emz_imagery
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– I laugh at my 15 minutes in the spotlight, she says to the tabloid newspaper Daily Mail.
Bonus cards and shopping bags
In the comments field, there are festive suggestions:
– You should tattoo the bonus cards you use every day, writes one.
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Another suggests tattooing the barcode of the shopping bags, an item that you shop relatively often once you are in the store.
Some people wonder if she actually wanted a real barcode tattoo.
– For some tattoo artists are so skilled that they can make it scan in as something completely ridiculous, she points out.
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– Hahaha, I had no idea! I got it for fun, but now you made me want one, Emilia writes back.
Spam barcode
A third person writes that they know someone who has tattooed a real barcode.
– I know a guy who got the barcode tattooed for spam (canned meat, journ.anm.), And it actually worked, he claims.
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Now there are people who have operated on a chip in their hand, which can, for example, function as a key card or as a means of payment.
Operated into chip
Isabelle Ringnes, the leader of TENK, the Tech network for women, is one of them. She has operated on a tiny chip in her left hand, right next to her thumb. She had it placed with a kind of needle, almost like a piercing, during a conference on biohacking in Stockholm.
She hopes to be able to use it to log in to the fitness center and to be able to lock the door at home.
– Soon we will be able to read health data in real time and find out when we should see a doctor. The effect of artificial intelligence in combination with biotechnology will be able to predict our needs, and when the chips become more secure and more powerful, I think they will be used by more and more people, she said to Dagbladet Magasinet three years ago.
Then Ringnes thought that more people would throw themselves on the biochip wave, as soon as the usefulness becomes obvious to most people.
Now the technology has come even further.
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