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Thiel Foundation Fellowship: Keil Fleischbein applies with a Utopian concept for grocery price sharing and comparison grocery shopping.

The Thiel Foundation has offered $100,000.00 to be paid out over two years as a fellowship award to 20 students, ages 15 to 20 years.  To be clear, that is $100K per student, and 20 students under the age of 20 years, 20 under 20.  Keil Taylor Fleischbein submitted to their request for proposal by answering their two questions:

  1. Tell us one thing about the world that you strongly believe is true, but that most people think is not true.
  2. How do you want to change the world?

The following is Keil’s response transcript, and here is his YouTube video submission for the Thiel Foundation Fellowship:

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Electronic Pickpocket: protect your credit cards!

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Pickpocket RFID data from credit cards at a distance with new technology

Thieves able to steal your credit card information without laying a hand on your wallet

Brand new technology that is putting 140 million people at risk from electronic pick pocketing.

Radio Frequency Identification technology found in the most recently released credit cards from banks allows this to happen.  RFID is now found in your passport, debit and credit cards for the benefit of doing things faster, but now it can be used at your loss.

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