Comments on: Nokia Oyster Card http://www.sermad.com/2009/04/23/nokia-oyster-card/ Music, Art, Design, Advertising Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:18:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Stenhouse http://www.sermad.com/2009/04/23/nokia-oyster-card/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Mike Stenhouse Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:40:00 +0000 http://www.sermad.com/?p=380#comment-239 But epoxy is for l33t hax0rs? I've actually got quite a few friends who've got 'em, none of whom are 12 or at school. If you're less inclined to toys there's always <a href="http://www.mynameise.com/" rel="nofollow">E</a> too. Same requirement for adhesive though. The market's already filling up with NFC devices... Nokia seem to have a fairly rocky track record with openness, although separating protocols from the reader is a great step in the right direction. What are the chances of them bringing out something that would work with other devices? Or will that be in the hands of the network providers? <br><br>Did you see the Oyster credit card (Barclays?) that came out a few years back? Also interesting - rolling all your payment methods into a single card.<br><br>I'm still a bit leery of NFC devices. The potential is incredible but so far the big companies (and countries!) haven't done a particularly good job of protecting their devices:<br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/14/oyster-cards-vulnerable-to-rfid-hack-lots-of-other-systems-too/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/14/oyster-cards...</a><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/daily_mail_passport_clone/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/daily_m...</a> But epoxy is for l33t hax0rs? I've actually got quite a few friends who've got 'em, none of whom are 12 or at school. If you're less inclined to toys there's always E too. Same requirement for adhesive though. The market's already filling up with NFC devices… Nokia seem to have a fairly rocky track record with openness, although separating protocols from the reader is a great step in the right direction. What are the chances of them bringing out something that would work with other devices? Or will that be in the hands of the network providers?

Did you see the Oyster credit card (Barclays?) that came out a few years back? Also interesting – rolling all your payment methods into a single card.

I'm still a bit leery of NFC devices. The potential is incredible but so far the big companies (and countries!) haven't done a particularly good job of protecting their devices:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/14/oyster-cards...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/06/daily_m...

]]> By: sermad http://www.sermad.com/2009/04/23/nokia-oyster-card/comment-page-1/#comment-238 sermad Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:15:11 +0000 http://www.sermad.com/?p=380#comment-238 Poken are wicked if your 12 years old and a Japanese school girl. Poken are wicked if your 12 years old and a Japanese school girl.

]]> By: Mike Stenhouse http://www.sermad.com/2009/04/23/nokia-oyster-card/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Mike Stenhouse Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:06:26 +0000 http://www.sermad.com/?p=380#comment-237 "I need to check the tech but I would imagine that if two handsets ‘touched’ each other - you could pass on your business card or your social networking profiles"<br><br>In the meantime, you could buy a <a href="http://www.doyoupoken.com/PokenWeb/corporate/welcome.jsf" rel="nofollow">Poken</a> and some epoxy... “I need to check the tech but I would imagine that if two handsets ‘touched’ each other – you could pass on your business card or your social networking profiles”

In the meantime, you could buy a Poken and some epoxy…

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