Dispensary Corner 19 May 14
May 19, 2014
LUMPY couch ‘bank’.
If you’re considering purchasing
furniture for your pharmacy, you
may be unwittingly taking part in
the lottery - three cash-strapped
New York students who invested
$20 in a second hand couch found
nearly US$41k in the arms of the
couch.
According to Yahoo! News, the
students also found a deposit slip
with a woman’s name on it and
promptly drove to her house and
presented the teary elderly lady
with her couch-banked cash.
Apparently her well-meaning
family had donated the couch to
the Salvation Army while she was
unwell.
VEIN withdrawal.
Could people start paying for
their medicines using the veins in
their hands?
New technology exploiting the
unique vein structure in fingers is
being used to create cash ETM’s
that don’t require either a credit
or debit card, nor a pin.
According to the Telegraph, the
Japanese electronics firm Hitachi
developed the technology which
enables the infra-red sensors
to read the pattern of the veins
immediately below the skin on
fingers.
Becoming more widely accepted
now than just in Japan, the
technology is in use in Turkish
Banks and similar technology
reading veins in the palm has
been developed by Fujitsu for
some American stores.
So heads up - vein readers could
be headed to your pharmacy in
the distant future!
I THINK it says ‘once daily’...
From the internet, we bring you
a joke which made us smile: A
doctor is to give a speech at the
local AMA dinner. He jots down
notes for his speech.
When he stands in front of his
colleagues later that night, he
finds that he can’t read his notes.
So he asks, “Is there a
pharmacist in the house?”
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