Tagger NFC Ultimate Geeky Easter Egg Hunt
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,108 words · ~5 min read
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the Jazz mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that
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even holds tablets up to 8 in Click now to learn more NFC for the uninitiated
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stands for nearfield communication and is a wireless radio communication
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standard that is designed for very closeup and very power efficient
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transmission of small amounts of data integrated NFC readers are a popular
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feature on Android and Windows Phone smartphones and NFC tags can be found on
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anything from movie posters to trigger a trailer to play on YouTube to food
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packaging to direct you to the manufacturer's website for nutritional information and recipe suggestions and
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as price continues to fall in the technology becomes more ubiquitous I
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expect there will be all kinds of innovative uses for it that we can't even imagine right now but you don't
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have to run around and find NFC tags that contain useful functionality you
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can actually buy your own here is just such a device from Tagger Tagger near
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wave type 1 NFC tags are like any NFC
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tag they're made up of a couple of key components including a very small amount
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of storage memory a radio chip and an antenna all of which is passively
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powered which means they draw power from the device reading them that means you
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can put them almost anywhere unlike some
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other NFC tags they're designed to be applied unapplied bent creased and all
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of that without invalidating your warranty and they're covered on each side by a waterproof PVC a protective
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layer with a frustratingly strong 3M Adhesive on the back side that we
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learned the hard way should probably only be applied to surfaces that you
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don't ever want to remove your tag from Luke went and stuck a couple of them
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together like way to go Luke with that cautionary message in mind you can stick
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them to almost anything they do have some limitations though we found that
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they only really work very close up like almost touching so make sure there's
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actually enough clearance for you to get your phone next to it and they also
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don't work work on metal surfaces unless you use an RF Shield they're a little
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bit on the big side at 32 cm squared but given that you have to get your phone in
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close to them I guess that last one is a bit of a non-issue which leads us into
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the big question here why would you want to buy your own NFC
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tags what can they be used for well with
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an app like trigger which we highly
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recommend you can set them up to do all kinds of things here are some cool
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examples that we came up with you can generate email shopping list when you're
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out of stuff you can save Grandma the frustration of navigating menus on her
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phone to place calls to loved ones you can set alarms at bedtime create a
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digital business card tap to enable Bluetooth and start music playback when
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you get in your car then tap again and turn everything off when you leave you
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can enable your Wi-Fi hotspots you can just put one on your laptop boom ready
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to go you can check in and out at home with a text message so your parents
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don't worry you can mute and dim the screen for school mode or other custom
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phone modes that you set up for yourself and you can even do things like create a
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silent alarm to call 911 if you think you're in danger and so much more but
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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
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rather than hiding real Easter eggs this is Winner Takes all whoever finds all
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eight Easter eggs back there well NFC tags and then uses NFC Reader in order
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to uh you know go up against them wins
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this solid chocolate bunny
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best of luck best of luck May May the best man win no I think we all know
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it'll be me oh that's why you don't want the best man to win y cuz that's me yeah
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well I don't know whether to be that's not very good trash talk all right let's
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do this
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thing
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n
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got it got it got it all right that's the last one last one I got
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it where's the where's the bunny do you
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know where lus is
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hey do you know where lonus is you just came from this
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way do you know where lonus
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is where is he show me
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go in the
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house he's in
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here light
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lus what are you
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doing what did you even find any of
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them I this I don't I don't want it now
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how did you even make get that all over your
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face so I guess I won and I wanted the
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chocolate bunny but I'm still going to classify this a win because I'm not that
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thing so I guess now's a good time to uh
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thank tiger NFC for sending us their excellent NFC tags that we use to make
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this fun little video about NFC you can uh
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you can check them out online we'll put a link in the video description so you
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can uh see where to get them they're Canadian company so you know we're
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Canadian too we like that kind of stuff not all Canadians are like this don't
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