Japanese college to put ID cards on cellphones

College students may be absent-minded enough to leave their student ID cards at home, but they wouldn’t dare go out without their cellphones. That’s the idea behind a plan being implemented at Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of Technology, where IDs will be stored on cellphones beginning this spring. The electronic IDs have several advantages over paper ones, including near-field communication functions like the ability to open locked doors and make purchases. However, we assume that at least one feature of the new cards will make students nostalgic for their old-school counterparts: we somehow suspect that changing your age via a deft application of an X-Acto Knife or some Wite-Out will be a little trickier with these.