Credit Cards

​Though efforts are underway to tackle the plastic waste problem, the images of vast islands of floating plastic available online show that there is still much to be done. American Express has announced a collaboration with Parley to create the first credit card made mostly from ocean plastic.​

The Token smart ring packs NFC and Bluetooth connectivity and is designed to take the place of your credit card, house and car keys, workplace access card and even laptop password.

​What do Coin, Plastc and Swyp have in common? They're all electronic charge cards that multiple other cards can be digitally loaded onto. Unfortunately, Coin is no longer being manufactured, and Plastc is out of business. That leaves Swyp, which has a new competitor in the form of the Fuze Card.

The Swyp Card promises to condense your wallet into a single metal card that stores info from debit, credit, loyalty and gift cards.

Plastc Card is a new electronic card-format device, that can store the information for up to 20 other cards on it at once. You just select the card that you want to access via the e-ink screen, then use Plastc as if it were that card.

Most of us still carry around a wallet full of plastic cards that we routinely have to rifle through. That's why the Coin was invented. It's a single card-shaped device, on which all your other cards can be stored and accessed electronically.

The Vault Wallet is a solid credit card sleeve made from stainless steel. The use of this material gives the Vault Wallet several advantages over the competition. It's strong, thin, able to block RFID sniffing, and potentially long-lasting.

The PayTouch system allows users to make purchases using their fingerprints in place of a debit or credit card.

Researchers a Fraunhofer IGD have developed a biometric "on-card comparison" system for credit cards that compares a newly penned signature with one stored on the card.

This coming January, MasterCard Worldwide will makes its largest deployment of its Display Card, in Singapore.

DipJar allows card-using customers at businesses such as coffee shops to leave tips with a simple "dip" of their card.

VITAband is a bracelet for solo outdoor athletes, that provides a link to their emergency contact information, and that allows them to make cash-free purchases.