High tech

This is a really minor thing, but one of the things that I love is that probably 80% of the time when I use my debit card here, the machine can detect that I speak English. The pay point at the register may be in German, but once it reads my card it switches to English, and at ATM machines I don't have to choose English since it comes up automatically. Not that it's that hard to figure it out in German, and I know it's probably just one small data field that isn't at all technologically sophisticated, but I don't care--props to the engineers who make my life just a little bit easier.