Dubai (CNN) A beauty salon in Dubai is giving new meaning to the term "chipped nails". Lanour Beauty Lounge offers a tiny microchip for its customers' fingernails.
Information can be embedded into the chips, allowing them to be used as a digital business card or to share information like an Instagram handle.
They use near-field communication technology to connect to mobile devices. "We install the information you want, like your name, your cell phone number, your social media accounts and also your website," Salon founder Nour Makarem told CNN.

Makarem began offering "Smart Nails" after the pandemic hit. "The only challenge was making them small enough to fit in a fingernail," she said.
Lanour Beauty Lounge says it has already performed more than 500 microchip manicures. Makarem hopes the nail microchip will have other applications in the future, from digital restaurant menus for waiters to contactless payments.