Here are our favorite devices for finding all the lost things in our daily lives.
NFC
Incipio Cashwrap Case Gives Your iPhone NFC Capabilities
The case is meant to interface with the Isis Mobile Wallet app, a Google Wallet competitor, to allow for mobile payments at select retail locations.
Forget Mobile Payments, Here’s Where NFC Really Shines
Instead of fumbling for your keys when you get home, imagine just tapping your phone against the lock.
The Digital Wallet Is Starting to Take Shape
Imagine if, in addition to all the things your smart phone does now, it could also act as your keys to the real world.
Instead of fumbling through a wallet for your credit cards, coupons, gift certificates, plane tickets, …
Why Smartphones Won’t Be Replacing Wallets Anytime Soon
While there are some technological and organizational hurdles holding back the advent of mobile payments, there’s another, more basic problem that’s likely to slow the rise of the smartphone wallet.
via Smartphones Unlikely to Replace Wallets, Cash Anytime Soon | Moneyland | TIME.com.
Future Smartphone Tech: 6 Advancements to Watch
Over the past few years, smartphones have made some incredible leaps and bounds in terms of hardware — to the point that it’s hard to imagine how the technology will continue to impress.
Still, there are a handful of new …
Wallet, Wallet Everywhere: Making Sense of the Mobile Payment Wars
There’s a cold war going on in the technology world. As smartphones become ubiquitous and online shopping grows, tech companies and payment companies are arming themselves for battle over how people pay for things.
Their …
New Technology Could Let You Unlock Doors with Your Bones
Keys. They take up valuable room in your pockets and are constantly getting lost. You know what doesn’t get lost? Your skeleton.
In the future, we all might be opening doors with our skeletons thanks to technology developed by …
Google Wallet Suspends Prepaid Cards After Blog Reveals Easy Hack
Fresh off bad news concerning the vulnerability of rooted Android phones, Google Wallet is trying to douse another fire. Last week, blog The Smartphone Champ reportedly found a major flaw in Google Wallet’s prepaid cards — a …
Google Wallet Hack Shows NFC Payments Still Aren’t Secure
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. That’s not because it doesn’t work; it actually works perfectly, which is the problem.
In a video posted by security firm Zvelo, the program …
Looking Forward to 2012: The Continued Demise of Cash
How mobile payments, NFC and person-to-person apps will change the way that people pay each other in the coming year.
Coming Soon: Digital Door Keys Right on Your Smartphone
On Wednesday I wrote about a digital Key Ring Rewards app that puts your membership cards (grocery, gym, etc.) onto your smartphone, cutting down on the amount of plastic you’d carry around every day. But what if I told you that soon you might be able to do the same with your physical door keys too?
New door key software—currently …