Tiny NFC Tag Challenge

Size does matter, in NFC's world, larger label size  is everything, even more important then large memory size. Good NFC scanning experience is most important.

However, today I will demostrate several types of tiny NFC tag and provide some hints reading them.These tiny tags are quite useful to apply on small objects, such as tools and jewellery.

Let the NFC Tag Tell You How Healthy Your Dog is

A Japanese company is helping busy dog owners to know more about how healthy their dog is. They sell a NFC tag to be hanged on dog’s neck and it monitors the health condition of pets 24-hours a day, 365-days a year. And the latest 14-days data in the tag can be synchronized to cloud using smartphone or PC. The tag counts steps taken then we can know how frequent we should walk our dog and prevent dog diabetes. It also counts body shaking of our dog so we can know if its stress level is OK. Other than these, it also records the temperature of the environment.

They have both smartphone app and web portal. Through these platforms, we can upload other info like how much food they have eaten and know about how healthy our pets are by taking a look on the data there. As the data is shown as graphs, it's quite easy to read. And we can write diary and upload photos to the cloud and share them to Facebook or twitter.

NFC Figures for the New Pokemon Game

Nintendo released the Wii U game Pokemon Scramble U together with a set of cute NFC Pokemon figures. Every one of them can be loaded into the game with a special ability and an initial strength value. There are now 16 types of them and even for figures of the same type, their special ability and strength value can be different.

The NFC Pokemon figures are designed to be loaded throughout our gaming experience. Everytime when we finish our game, we earn coins and can use those coins in helping our Pokemon to learn new Pokemon-specific special abilities and increase their strength value. Then the growth of our Pokemon can be recorded back to the NFC Pokemon figure again. More than that, we can choose a title for our NFC Pokemon figure. For example, if we give a title "Fast" for our Pokemon, it will move faster during the game. In this way, every one of us can have our unique Pokemon!

Other than the NFC Pokemon figures, we can also try to use contactless smartcard to load other Pokemon as temporary helping hand in the game.