so visa sponsored us out to new york again
seriously if it wasn't so expensive i would just buy an apartment here at this
point anyway the event today is to celebrate the upcoming olympic winter
games pyeongchang 2018. they're going to be sponsoring some amazing athletes some
of which are even here today and this is also my first look at team usa's
official year and a handful of
contactless payment methods that visa is going to be introducing exclusively for
the winter olympics next year all right check-in time
all they have is vip so i guess i'll uh go with one of those next up the
nigerian women's bobsled team is here so
naturally they hauled a full-sized bobsled
into the event this is authentic right
that's how it works so anyway if they qualify
they would be the first ever bobsled team from the entire continent of africa
male or female to compete in the winter games and then right around the corner
we get into what is pretty much the main event this is the nbc shopping
experience and there are a few noteworthy things here this is my first
look at any pyeongchang 2018 gear and
they've got an absolute ton of it on display here they're stuffies of the
official mascots and a bunch of really good looking team usa gear they've got
scarves the jackets look great although
i have to say i am partial to
the toque sorry excuse me up beanie
then once i'm in the shop and i've decided i want to
buy something we get to have a look at a really cool implementation of
contactless payment that visa is showing off here so the underlying technology
isn't anything new but now it's built into one of three collectible items to
celebrate the winter games there's a pin which is actually on sale already in
south korea and a cute little sticker and this one's really neat there's
actually a pair of payment enabled gloves that will be available
exclusively in south korea during the winter olympics and then all of them
have built-in payment so i wanted to give you guys a closer look at this
but i'm already getting the evil eye for even lifting up the case that much these
are prototypes they're not the final version so they wouldn't let me take
them out from under the glass so what i'll do is i'll show you how it all works with the pin as my demo basically
you walk up to any terminal just like you normally would
get the little confirmation animation and boom you are done okay then so on
the surface these items seem pretty
superfluous especially in a high-tech place like south korea but there's
actually a bit more to this idea than meets the eye these souvenirs come
pre-loaded with south korean wan you can just wave your pin or your hand or your
sticker at the terminal and off you go with some gear a nice cup of hot
chocolate from the concession stand or whatever else it is that you want so
it's not a replacement for the payment options that already exist
it's just a way of showing off how contactless has the potential to do even
more for cashless convenience than the plastic cards that we're using now
so thanks to visa for sponsoring this trip out here thanks to you guys for
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featured which would involve a trip to south korea but hey the winter games are going
to be there so that's not such a terrible thing and uh
hey while you're down in the description our merch store is down there with cool shirts like this one and we've also got
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