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If Your Credit Card Could Talk, What Would it Say?

So are you planning on getting the new talking credit card, Visa Voice?Actually, there's no such thing, but for a few seconds, before I realized I had stumbled onto the satirical fake news website, The Onion, I completely bought into its fake press release.

The Onion "reported" that Visa held a press event earlier this week to introduce "Visa Voice," a new series of credit cards that talk to the cardholder. They quoted Visa president John Partridge (a real person) saying, "Whenever you're near an item you're hesitant to purchase, Visa Voice offers words of encouragement, such as 'Come on, just go for it!' and 'Trust me -- you're not gonna regret this."If the cardholder didn't make a purchase, The Onion went on to say, the card would start whispering, "You know you want it."Almost too close to home, it was this hilarious faux news item on The Onion that got me thinking that the humorists there might actually be on to something. Why? Because with some talking phones already possessing the...

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