Monday, January 21, 2013

NFC: Not just for mobile payments anymore


LG demos NFC technology in appliances at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.


(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

Move over, mobile payments. NFC is finding other ways to make itself useful.


In fact, paying for items with one's phone seems to be the least common use for the close-range connectivity technology right now, at least based on gadgets unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show. Rather, essentially all products using NFC shown at the recent confab employed the technology in one of two ways: To set up a sort of digital handshake between a mobile device and another gadget or as a way to share information between products with just a tap.


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