Near Field Communications Handsets and Tags, NFC Pilots and Projects

MIT tries to bring NFC to every day life

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The school’s Mobile Experience Lab explores the future of life with the mobile handset

Most trials of near field communication have involved payment applications at the neighborhood department store, restaurant or transit agency. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge took a different tact, however, attempting to illustrate the many other ways NFC could be used in everyday life.

The result was a video featuring several students and how they utilized NFC-compliant cell phones. Right now, it’s more a vision on how NFC can influence the lives of citizens, says Federico Casalegno, director of MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab and one of the movers behind this NFC project.

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