A Credit Card On Your Wrist, a Debit Card On Your Keychain – Barclaycard’s bPay Wearable Technology
27 July, 2015
Recently Barclaycard announced it’s latest foray into RFID-based contactless payment technology, with the Barclaycard bPay system.
By embedding the touch pay system from their credit cards into wristbands, keychains, and specially made anti-tamper stickers, they’re hoping to further encourage their customers to use the ultra-fast payment system.
Why I’m interested in it is because it’s one of the first times a commercial bank has ever ventured into wearable technology.
Introducing bPay by Barclaycard
WRITTEN BY
Jack Meyer
Bespoke jewellery designer, and specialist in jewellery CAD/CAM and emergent technologies that affect jewellery.
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