1. NFC nails

Japanese toy manufacturer Takara Tommy has introduced a fake nail with LED lights. After touching a nearby smartphone, the NFC element in the fake nail will activate the LED lights to make the nail light up. The product also comes with an android app that allows users to configure when fake nails light up. It’s about $12, cheaper than a manicure, and it’s shiny.

Editor’s comments: in view of the popularity of wearable devices in NFC application field, bracelets, watches, necklaces and other applications have been common, so-called intelligent wearable is just health management, sports testing and mobile payment, such a simple NFC nail can make people bright at first time, at least, it can be “bright” in front of you!

2. NFC gloves

A smart glove with NFC technology developed by Fujitsu Company of Japan, which can recognize gesture, is specially designed for outdoor workers. The glove works best with a helmet mounted display (HMD). As far as gloves are concerned, users can wear gloves and tap on items with NFC technology in front of them, and the information of items will be received synchronously in the HMD.

Editor’s comment: it’s also wearable equipment, and the exposure rate of gloves is relatively low. Will it feel like a future technology if it is equipped with a helmet mounted display?

3. NFC calendar

Nokia has launched 1500 NFC calendars with whooshing, a British NFC marketing company. The event is only applicable to Windows Phone 8 users. After reading the calendar on a specific date, a new app will be available. Every special day, there is an NFC tag. After reading the tag, there will be new application push.

Editor’s comment: it’s a good idea to have a different app experience every day, but these new apps need to have features and attraction, otherwise there won’t be any market! By the way, you’re right. They only apply to users of Windows Phone 8, so let’s not think about them!

4. NFC screen

Think & go has released a dynamic NFC screen that combines video playback and smart poster functions, allowing consumers to interact with NFC phones. The screen includes a series of dynamic and changeable NFC tags arranged in matrix and controlled by a computer providing video content. The number of tags is determined by the screen size. These screens allow consumers to use NFC mobile phones to interact with the screens, such as collecting coupons, downloading content, browsing advertisements or putting products into mobile shopping baskets.

Edit and comment: the biggest feature of this smart poster is that it is dynamic, and the tag information on the screen can also be changed through the host, which is still a little new compared with the ordinary NFC tags that only provide information!

5. NFC rental system

NFC reassurance taxi system launched by the Ministry of science and technology of South Korea. After passengers download the app of the system, they can get the license plate number, driver number, driver’s name, contact information, form road section and other information of the taxi by scanning the NFC label in the car. Passengers can send the letter to their family members or friends’ mobile phones by SMS. As long as you swipe the label, you can add a sense of security to your night trip, so that your family members and friends will no longer be afraid to wait.

Editorial review: in fact, it’s just an ordinary NFC tag information read by app and sent to family members in the form of SMS. Similar taxi software has been launched in the United States, but such an application on a displaced taxi seems to have an unexpected effect, perhaps because people on the road miss home the most!

6. NFC bag

A schoolbag named “smart multi star” is developed by six students for kindergarten and primary school children. The smart schoolbag includes a tablet computer, Bluetooth smart strap and small lens. Using NFC technology, the package is equipped with a sensor. Parents only need to paste one NFC chip on each textbook. Parents will input the daily curriculum into the app designed by the students, and then input the NFC chip number in the required textbook for each course. When the textbook is put into the bag, the sensor can sense it and then display on the tablet whether the book is needed for the next day’s course. The smart schoolbag also has an alarm function. If a child is lost, just press the help button on the tablet computer, and the parents can find the child through the location tracking function.

Edit and comment: when books are put into the schoolbag, you can feel and display on the tablet whether the setting required for the next day’s course is a bright spot and interesting point. There is nothing wrong with the rest!

7. NFC mobile phone shell

A project crowdfunded by Clip cases, a London based hardware Start-up Company, is designed for Android devices with three hardware buttons on the back. Users can create a custom shortcut key, which is actually a pressure sensitive key, to help minimize the possibility of accidentally touching the key. The keys supporting NFC can be customized through the matching application, which supports both long-time pressing and short-time pressing, thus expanding the potential shortcut key combination. So you can have all six shortcuts if you want.

Edit and comment: Recently, similar application products have been launched. It’s easy to understand that the auxiliary key of mobile phone can quickly start some settings and applications, which may be a good choice for some lazy people, but only if your mobile phone has NFC function!

8. NFC coffee machine

An intelligent coffee machine, artist, is made by a foreign entrepreneurial team. Artist supports Wi-Fi network and is connected to mobile app. Through the operation of the mobile terminal, coffee can be brewed remotely. In addition, it also provides a variety of coffee matching and automatic mixing. The key lies in the NFC sticker applied to the coffee machine, which can be pasted at the bottom of the cup. Put the cup with the NFC sticker on the coffee machine, you can immediately get a cup of coffee with the variety set in advance. Each device supports 6 NFC stickers.

Edit and comment: it sounds like fun. It looks very tall. In fact, it is to use the tag to set the information and then the embedded chip in the coffee machine to read the sensor and complete the corresponding work. However, this idea is very interesting. If it is a small edit, it is afraid that he will be passionate about making coffee!

9. NFC water cup

The intelligent water cup, named Rrioo Ocup, released by Shenzhen Ruiou technology, not only has the basic intelligent water cup functions such as water volume monitoring, water temperature monitoring, drinking water reminder, but also has interactive sensing and social functions. It also uses wireless charging technology. The most imaginative thing is that it has NFC chip in it. The water cup can automatically identify the number of tea bags in the current water temperature you can get the best taste in a few minutes. When the user puts the tea bag with label into the cup, the cup will judge the tea type according to the chip information sensed, and automatically set the tea brewing time. When the brewing time is up, Ocup will remind users to drink.

Editor’s comments: it’s similar to the principle of coffee machine, except that the label is put into the tea bag. According to the different tea bags, the time is automatically set to complete the brewing. The manufacturer’s consideration is too ingenious. This is to let the editor keep buying the rhythm of the tea bag! But the editor thinks, can you take down the label in the tea bag, and then set the information by himself through NFC mobile phone, aha, as expected, the editor it’s also very ingenious!

10. NFC doll

According to the cartoon character of the same name, South Korea launched a smart playmate named friend Duda, which has built-in speakers, radio and NFC. With wireless network, parents can input information through mobile phone, and the information will be transmitted to friend Duda, and be said in Duda’s lovely voice. There are also five groups of NFC label stickers attached to friend Duda. Parents or children can record information in advance through their mobile phone or friend Duda’s radio. When friend Duda or their mobile phone contacts the NFC label, the previously recorded information will be read out. Parents can remind their children to eat more fruits and vegetables, clean the room and so on with the help of toy dolls. At the same time, their children can also leave messages to their parents through tags.

Edit and comment: a kind of intelligent doll with strong applicability, its strength lies in that it can replace the communication between parents and children, greatly enhancing the communication between parents and children. First of all, whether the application experience is good or not, at least the children will like such a talking little playmate very much!

These applications are more or less similar, and some of them may not be very interesting or novel to you. Maybe they will be more attractive when they are actually applied in real life. At present, NFC has been regarded as the mobile payment field, and its development in the field of mobile payment is in full swing, but NFC is not only mobile payment, but also mobile payment Pay applications also need other NFC applications to increase user viscosity. In the future, NFC applications will be more and more, and application scenarios will be more and richer. After the payment and non-payment applications are well combined to form a healthy ecosystem, NFC will truly enter people’s lives.