credit cards
Design
Wallet Bulge Wouldn’t Exist With This This All-In-One Credit Card
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | Sure, some of that wallet bulge comes from old-fashioned cash, but let’s face it, credit cards and receipts are the big contributors. With the One Card concept though, you’d have everything accessible by turning a nob on a single card. More »
Gadgets
SmartSwipe USB Credit Card Reader Comes To US Shopaholics
2:30AM Sean Fallon | Previously only available in Canada, the SmartSwipe credit card reader is now available to US online shopaholics. The device plugs into any USB port and allows the user to securely swipe their card to make purchases. More »
Gadgets
A Man Finds an Actual Card Skimmer in the Wild, in the Flesh
12:00PM Andi Wang | What? No way. Something thought to be of an urban legend—or maybe just a story we’d only see on 20/20—a real, normal person has actually found proof of the the ever evasive credit-card skimmer. More »
Gadgets
Sony TV Remote Will Steal Your Identity to Order Spiderman 3
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Sony’s latest Japan-exclusive Bravia W5 and F5 are some fancy LCDs, refreshing at 240Hz and featuring deep contrast ratios. But the neatest thing about these TVs is surely their credit card-reading remote control. More »
Peripherals
LG LBA-C300: Bluetooth Keyboard with Credit Card Style
12:10AM Mark Wilson | We’d never heard of “Qwerty Cards” before today, but LG’s LBA-C300—discovered in a recent FCC filing—claims to be just that. More »
Phones
Red Tape, Greed Blocking Widespread U.S. Mobile Phone Credit Card Transactions
3:01AM Jack Loftus | In Japan, paying for things with a wave of a cell phone is old hat. Clothing, food, movies, loose women—you name it, they’ve bought it using a phone. Americans? Not so much. Here’s why. More »
Gadgets
Discover Card Biodegrades Your Debt Away
12:15AM Mark Wilson | While most of us can’t avoid the convenience of credit cards (and their reusable nature is commendable), their plastics aren’t so good. Now Discover has launched the US’s first biodegradable credit card. More »
Random Stuff
Salvation Army Santas Now Take Credit Cards
10:40AM Matt Buchanan | I hate having change in my pockets. It’s clutter. Besides, I rarely carry any cash nowadays—the almighty debit card tackles all transactions. So whenever I see a Salvation Army Santa endlessly tingling his little bell, I keep on marching ’til I’m out of earshot. But those days are over. The Salvation Army is loading up Santas in the Dallas area with credit card machines that will beam money directly from your bank account and into their charitable coffers. The minimum donation via plastic is $US5. More »
Gadgets
Techie Visa Card Features Buttons and Screen to Generate CCV Dynamically
5:35AM Mark Wilson | In the interest of thwarting credit card theft, Visa is testing some pretty interesting card technology with a handful of European banks. Using what appears to be Visa’s mutant hybrid of a credit card and a pocket calculator, users can enter their PIN into the card itself and have a security code generated on the fly. More »
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