Paris Metro brings a bit of style to NFC The Paris Metro will be getting new payment cards next year, cards which pave the way to board-by-bonk phones by being compatible with the NFC standard. Not that the Paris transport authority, the STIF, is saying much about the technical capabilities of the new card. The French are much more interested in the fact that it was …
They got the Lumia which doesn't have NFC. But who am I kidding, who would build an app for the N9, even though the UI code is dead easy and the core logic is Linux gcc?
As for punters evaluating who to relieve of their phones: put it in a sock, NFC is contactless enough.
This is not the first contactless card used in Paris. The existing Navigo cards are similar to the RFID Oyster, but use a different application (Calypso rather than MiFare).
By adopting an "NFC" standard, the new card provides a migration path to allow pay-by-phone if that's deemed useful (the jury's out), but I can't help thinking that the real motivation is that credit and debit cards will also be moving to NFC in the coming years, and this would allow simpler payment terminals that could take either Navigo or Credit/Debit cards.
He's the guy who designed the 'golden turd' for Asahi in Tokyo. (I'm not being rude, that's what the locals call it)
so...
...it will be very expensive.
...and won't actually, like, you know, BE USEFUL or WORK, will it?
Case in point: Have you ever tried using Starck's martian juicer? Really? Do it one day, it is superb fun to see how such a simple design can fail in so many hilarious ways.
It's rectangular, like all the others.
It's got a chip in one end, like all the others.
It's got some logos and some identification details on it, like all the others.
Presumably the only "designer" bit here involves choosing the colour scheme and deciding which edge is "up".
Philippe Starck must be pissing himself with laughter as he banks the hefty fee he got for that job......
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