Credit Cards

Partnerships with MasterCard and Visa allow Token to use credit card payment readers

Wearables

Token puts credit cards, keys and transit passes on your finger

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.

The Fuze Card can digitally store up to 30 other cards on its internal memory

Electronics

Electronic multi-card is aimed at slimming your wallet

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.

Swyp aims to slim down your wallet by condensing up to 25 cards into one

Electronics

Swyp aims to replace all your plastic cards with one that's electronic

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

The Plastc Card features an e-ink screen and a rewritable magnetic strip

Electronics

Plastc – one card to rule them all?

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.

Coin stores and provides access to electronic versions of your cards

Electronics

Coin combines multiple cards in one device

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.

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

Good Thinking

MasterCard releases card with LCD display and keyboard

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

Electronics

DipJar – it's the electronic version of a tip jar

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

Outdoors

VITAband is a cash/I.D. combo you wear on your wrist

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.

Google Wallet, an app that allows users to pay for items simply by tapping their smartphone on an NFC reader in a store, officially launched today

Mobile Technology

Tap-to-pay Google Wallet launched

Google Wallet, an app that allows users to pay for items simply by tapping their smartphone on an NFC reader in a store, officially launched today.

Games

PlayStation Network hacked, personal information of 77 million accounts accessed

At some stage between the 17th and 19th of April, a hacker gained access to Sony's systems, and retrieved the personal information of 77 million PSN accounts.

Square is a card reader and app system that allows mobile devices to receive credit or debit card payments

Mobile Technology

Square system lets mobile devices take card payments

Square is a card reader and app system that allows mobile devices to receive credit or debit card payments.

The Planon SlimScan SS100 is a credit card-sized high-resolution color scanner, designed for scanning and keeping track of receipts

Electronics

Planon releases credit card-sized scanner for receipts

The Planon SlimScan SS100 is a "credit card-sized" high-resolution color scanner, designed for scanning and keeping track of receipts.