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This NFC-enabled ring stores your personal data on your fingertips

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Have you ever wanted to wave your hand to unlock a door or transfer your contact information by simply touching a phone? How about keeping all of your top secret passwords at arm’s length, literally? Well, with this Kickstarter-funded near field communication-enabled ring, all that could soon be possible.

The technology behind the NFC ring is strikingly simple. It’s nothing more than a titanium band and two inlays with NFC-ready chips in them. There’s a big one on the top of the ring for public information and a smaller one on the inside for private information. This is designed to enable the wearer to use different types of hand gestures in order to share different kinds of information.
via Gizmodo

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