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so visa sponsored us out to new york again

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seriously if it wasn't so expensive i would just buy an apartment here at this

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point anyway the event today is to celebrate the upcoming olympic winter

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games pyeongchang 2018. they're going to be sponsoring some amazing athletes some

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of which are even here today and this is also my first look at team usa's

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official year and a handful of

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contactless payment methods that visa is going to be introducing exclusively for

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the winter olympics next year all right check-in time

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all they have is vip so i guess i'll uh go with one of those next up the

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nigerian women's bobsled team is here so

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naturally they hauled a full-sized bobsled

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into the event this is authentic right

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that's how it works so anyway if they qualify

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they would be the first ever bobsled team from the entire continent of africa

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male or female to compete in the winter games and then right around the corner

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we get into what is pretty much the main event this is the nbc shopping

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experience and there are a few noteworthy things here this is my first

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look at any pyeongchang 2018 gear and

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they've got an absolute ton of it on display here they're stuffies of the

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official mascots and a bunch of really good looking team usa gear they've got

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scarves the jackets look great although

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i have to say i am partial to

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the toque sorry excuse me up beanie

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then once i'm in the shop and i've decided i want to

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buy something we get to have a look at a really cool implementation of

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contactless payment that visa is showing off here so the underlying technology

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isn't anything new but now it's built into one of three collectible items to

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celebrate the winter games there's a pin which is actually on sale already in

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south korea and a cute little sticker and this one's really neat there's

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actually a pair of payment enabled gloves that will be available

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exclusively in south korea during the winter olympics and then all of them

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have built-in payment so i wanted to give you guys a closer look at this

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but i'm already getting the evil eye for even lifting up the case that much these

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are prototypes they're not the final version so they wouldn't let me take

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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

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you walk up to any terminal just like you normally would

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get the little confirmation animation and boom you are done okay then so on

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the surface these items seem pretty

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superfluous especially in a high-tech place like south korea but there's

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actually a bit more to this idea than meets the eye these souvenirs come

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pre-loaded with south korean wan you can just wave your pin or your hand or your

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sticker at the terminal and off you go with some gear a nice cup of hot

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chocolate from the concession stand or whatever else it is that you want so

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it's not a replacement for the payment options that already exist

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it's just a way of showing off how contactless has the potential to do even

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more for cashless convenience than the plastic cards that we're using now

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so thanks to visa for sponsoring this trip out here thanks to you guys for

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watching if you dislike this video you know what to do but if you liked it hit

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like get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we

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featured which would involve a trip to south korea but hey the winter games are going

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to be there so that's not such a terrible thing and uh

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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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our community forum linked oh my vip badge is turned around see vip