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Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Carrino.

A French security firm, Tullis, is launching a credit card that talks to make transactions more

secure for people with visual impairments. About 250 million people worldwide have some form of

visual impairment and in France, they're often vulnerable to fraud schemes. The new Tullis credit card

connects users with a phone app that verbalizes transactions. In Paris, John Lawrenceon tagged along

as one person tried it out. Stephanie Cone's white walking cane glides along a sidewalk as she

navigates through a Paris suburb. Cone lost her sight when she was 12 after a series of failed

operations. Now, as an adult, for Cone, everyday situations are often challenging, like buying a

sandwich. Credit cards are not easy for visually impaired people to use because they can't always

see the terminal to know where to insert their card. The main challenge for blind people is that

they can't confirm if the price the retailer keys in is accurate. Until now,

in the R&D offices of TechFirm, Tullis, Cone is here to test the company's new talking credit card.

It was the French who invented the chip card with its four-digit code security system.

Tullis is also developing a biometric credit card that can read a user's fingerprint. Pierre-Palagion,

the company's banking personalization program manager, says the talking credit card takes

this tech one step further. This credit card doesn't only contain a payment chip,

but another piece of electronics that enables you to connect it to the user's cell phone.

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