the Jazz mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that
even holds tablets up to 8 in Click now to learn more NFC for the uninitiated
stands for nearfield communication and is a wireless radio communication
standard that is designed for very closeup and very power efficient
transmission of small amounts of data integrated NFC readers are a popular
feature on Android and Windows Phone smartphones and NFC tags can be found on
anything from movie posters to trigger a trailer to play on YouTube to food
packaging to direct you to the manufacturer's website for nutritional information and recipe suggestions and
as price continues to fall in the technology becomes more ubiquitous I
expect there will be all kinds of innovative uses for it that we can't even imagine right now but you don't
have to run around and find NFC tags that contain useful functionality you
can actually buy your own here is just such a device from Tagger Tagger near
wave type 1 NFC tags are like any NFC
tag they're made up of a couple of key components including a very small amount
of storage memory a radio chip and an antenna all of which is passively
powered which means they draw power from the device reading them that means you
can put them almost anywhere unlike some
other NFC tags they're designed to be applied unapplied bent creased and all
of that without invalidating your warranty and they're covered on each side by a waterproof PVC a protective
layer with a frustratingly strong 3M Adhesive on the back side that we
learned the hard way should probably only be applied to surfaces that you
don't ever want to remove your tag from Luke went and stuck a couple of them
together like way to go Luke with that cautionary message in mind you can stick
them to almost anything they do have some limitations though we found that
they only really work very close up like almost touching so make sure there's
actually enough clearance for you to get your phone next to it and they also
don't work work on metal surfaces unless you use an RF Shield they're a little
bit on the big side at 32 cm squared but given that you have to get your phone in
close to them I guess that last one is a bit of a non-issue which leads us into
the big question here why would you want to buy your own NFC
tags what can they be used for well with
an app like trigger which we highly
recommend you can set them up to do all kinds of things here are some cool
examples that we came up with you can generate email shopping list when you're
out of stuff you can save Grandma the frustration of navigating menus on her
phone to place calls to loved ones you can set alarms at bedtime create a
digital business card tap to enable Bluetooth and start music playback when
you get in your car then tap again and turn everything off when you leave you
can enable your Wi-Fi hotspots you can just put one on your laptop boom ready
to go you can check in and out at home with a text message so your parents
don't worry you can mute and dim the screen for school mode or other custom
phone modes that you set up for yourself and you can even do things like create a
silent alarm to call 911 if you think you're in danger and so much more but
you guys aren't interested in all of that stuff you want to see whether you can use NFC to do an Easter egg hunt so
rather than hiding real Easter eggs this is Winner Takes all whoever finds all
eight Easter eggs back there well NFC tags and then uses NFC Reader in order
to uh you know go up against them wins
this solid chocolate bunny
best of luck best of luck May May the best man win no I think we all know
it'll be me oh that's why you don't want the best man to win y cuz that's me yeah
well I don't know whether to be that's not very good trash talk all right let's
do this
thing
n
got it got it got it all right that's the last one last one I got
it where's the where's the bunny do you
know where lus is
hey do you know where lonus is you just came from this
way do you know where lonus
is where is he show me
go in the
house he's in
here light
lus what are you
doing what did you even find any of
them I this I don't I don't want it now
how did you even make get that all over your
face so I guess I won and I wanted the
chocolate bunny but I'm still going to classify this a win because I'm not that
thing so I guess now's a good time to uh
thank tiger NFC for sending us their excellent NFC tags that we use to make
this fun little video about NFC you can uh
you can check them out online we'll put a link in the video description so you
can uh see where to get them they're Canadian company so you know we're
Canadian too we like that kind of stuff not all Canadians are like this don't
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