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BBC’s ‘Click’ technology TV program has chosen Near Field communication (NFC) technology as one of the five top technologies for 2008. BBC selected the five technologies from the hundreds of consumer products and technologies on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) International in Last Vegas.
NFC technology is a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables two-way interactions between electronic devices within a decimeter range. NFC technology allows consumers to perform contactless transactions, access digital content and connect devices. Ultra Wide Band (UWB), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLED), Solid State Drives (SSD) and long range wireless technology Wimax also made BBC’s Click top 5 technologies for 2008. “The ‘Click’ program’s selection of NFC says a great deal about both the maturity of NFC technology and the growing demand for it among consumers,” said vice-chairman of NFC Forum Gerhard Romen. “At this year’s CES, NFC Forum members showcased a broad range of commercial applications that take the convenience of NFC in a number of exciting new directions,” he concluded.NFC Forum member demonstrations at CES 2008 included demonstrations of using mobile as a payment or travel card, making mobile proximity purchases easy using an NFC-enabled device, transmitting digital pictures quickly and simply over a secure Bluetooth connection, redeeming mobile phone-based coupons at POS and using an USB-NFC reader to enable card-to-PC communications. Other NFC presentations showed at CES included collecting and displaying information from smart posters using NFC phones, NFC-enabled products for the car, home and office, as well as connecting Bluetooth devices by waving a mobile phone over an NFC reader/writer. |
