Pass the tip of a wand reader over a magnetically encoded stripe of a merchandise ticket, credit card, or employee badge.
⇑ Translate the sentence above by Google ⇑
Related: badge, stripe
Prev: The thing about the scorpion badge is that it bestowed upon the car a certain specialness; this was no ordinary Fiat, but an Abarth.
Next: A few psychology journals have created incentives to increase interest in reproducible science — for example, by affixing an ‘ open-data' badge to articles that clearly state where data are available.