Last year, Visa announced a similar card with interactive functions.

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Besides the usual debit and credit functions, the Hainan card records medical insurance transactions and other social services.

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As I said before, it functions as a permanent bodily membership card.

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Curiously absent from the spec sheet are any mention of Bluetooth or memory card support, but with the music and imaging functions, we imagine that there's at least a microSD slot tucked away in there somewhere.

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