nfc in photos
Photos: Dreaming of a Bluetooth Christmas
Photo Owners of NFC phones can tap their mobile to the frame to transfer an image by clicking 'yes' to an instruction to 'print'. While there are only a handful of NFC handsets in the UK at present, Parrot... [22 Sep 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo O2 will allow selected guests to access luxury toilets by scanning contactless NFC wristbands on special readers. The 'VIPee' NFC toilets will be available to 100 existing O2 NFC trial... [26 Jun 2008]
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Photo Innovision, one of the companies involved in O2's six-month Oyster mobile wallet trial in London, has been showing off potential applications for NFC phones using its Topaz tag technology. Here a tag enables an... [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'
Photo Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where low-cost stick-on NFC tags can turn any object into a 'smart object' - allowing mobile... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos: NFC tech takes to the catwalk
Photo High fashion met high-tech when style gurus at London Fashion Week chose the designs that will be dominating the high street using near field communication (NFC). Fashion buyers at the Science Museum registered their... [11 Feb 2008]
Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet
Photo The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC (near field communication) and RFID technology could soon allow phones to pay for goods and services, act as travel or gig tickets and... [31 Jan 2008]
Re:Viewing 2006: Photos of the year
Photo If a tourist places their NFC-equipped mobile against the Flytag logo - in the upper left hand corner of the sign - information about the Abbaye will be transmitted directly to the phone, either by phone call or SMS. [20 Dec 2006]
Photos: Caen's NFC pilot in action
Photo The city of Caen in Normandy is the home of the largest near field communications (NFC) trial. The Abbaye des Hommes, once home to William the Conqueror's men, has gone all high-tech for the trial with its own... [20 Apr 2006]
