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A lid that fits the most popular cardboard coffee cups includes a slot for bills and another slot for coins. The slots have scanner tech that counts the money inserted and sends money-insertion signals to a Bluetooth transceiver embedded into the underside of the lid to allow connectivity to a phone
app such as one for financial planning, online shopping, or even online banking . A speaker embedded in the lid can be per-programmed with selectable/recordable responses such as "thank you" and "have a nice day".
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Also, it could eject counterfeit coins, and torn or folded notes. |
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//and torn or folded notes. |
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Presumably the cyber lid has a processor for payment by bitcoins? |
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Taking this a little further, why not simply
implement the beggars in software? In this day and
age, there's surely no need to have them as
hardware, occupying valuable space? |
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