RFID in Japan

NTT DoCoMo announced that they will start offering credit cards called DCMX (= DoCoMo + X, suggesting unknown potential).

DoCoMo's "iD" is a platform for providing credit card services using RFID-chipped wallet phones. So, companies like Mitsui Sumitomo, UC Card, CrediSeson, Ion Credit Card Service have been providing credit card services for the "iD" platform. But, now, DoCoMo is going to provide their own credit card service.

It seems that DoCoMo wants to differentiate their service as something cool and fashionable, so to speak. They are designing cool cards, bills, and sound effects of RFID readers in collaboration with industrial designers and composers. They're gonna also open a DCMX Cafe in Harajuku. Am wondering what it could be like and very curious about the sound effects.

via MyCOM PC WEB

Posted by konomi at April 5, 2006 01:38 AM | TrackBack