How Korean use NFC? Can I cook rice without rice cooker App?

Watch this program Korea Report, and you will be inspired by innovative Korean.  (Be patient about the ad before show)

To read the original text: http://sbscnbc.sbs.co.kr/read.jsp?pmArticleId=10000580232




It covers a lot!

• Payment, Wifi/BT pairing (...yawn.......)
• Electronic appliances, yes, they do have refrigerator App, Rice Cooker APP!!!  washing machines App!!  (goto 3:30 )
• Museum Art Display!

AMAZING! Soon, smartphone mobile can make and feed us with kimbap (Korean rice roll) !!

Innovative-marketing Series 1 : Fast food delivery

Here I would like to do some BBOOOM!.....a Brainstorming on NFC applications, inspired by some NFC news worldwide.

Reference Link:
Domino's readies nationwide NFC summer campaign

Domino's App: Google Play

Why not make a NFC sticker on a pizza cutter, or fork or spoon for Fastest pizza order using smartphone?

Customers can tap on the NFC tag to quick dial pizza order hotline without any APP. OR...customer can tap on the tag and link to a mobile-website to place order. OR...customer tap on the tag and get launch the app to do the ordering with GPS-location or address information. Customer can also accumulate points and redeem rewards

NFC-enabled Promotion Items help customer
- quick dial
- quickly place order
- no need to spell out tedious ADDRESS
- earn loyalty scheme and redeem prizes

Of course, we can still include QR codes on any printed materials to fit with i-device users.

NFC lights up LEDs on Teddy

I just made a simple mock up/demo for NFC toys which LED powered by the RF power from smartphone. The NFC tag launched the Tapogram app, and the coil separately lit up 2 LEDs. No battery is needed for Teddy bear. The power is small but enough to trigger wake up for other circuit. We can design a lot other applications which can interact with smartphones.

e.g. toys figure, model, smart poster or banner, board game, etc.

Take a Look in the Latest Make-up Tips with NFC

During the semester, I used NFC to help me study, but now exams ended and my holidays came. It's nice to be able to get out and enjoy but here comes a new trouble - how to do my makeup? These days, I installed a makeup app - Beautylish for me to read the latest makeup tips during makeup. And more than that, I found out a convenient way to open the app.

I've set up a NFC tag behind my mirror so that I can load Beautylish with my mirror, even when I am out. The app I've used is NFC Actions. The set up process is really easy. I just have to add a new task - launch an app and then choose Beautylish. Then, with a tap of my tag, the tag is ready to go.

Japanese Anime Cartoon X NFC Keyfobs

As a 70s grown up, I like these NFC cartoon keyfobs very much. Well, I guess it doesn't matter what ages you are. We all like japs cartoon. It is something beyond NFC features. I just LOVE them so much…for sure I will buy them all if I can find them. I will write a facebook fan page bookmark in the tag, or use Tapogram to record a tune inside the NFC.

I am wondering where to order these cute keyfob without many tailor-made or customization. I found some from Chinese taobao/alibaba but worrying if they have issues with copyrights. Its really a pity that not much manufacturers realized the NFC trend.

Using NFC as a tool in studying

As an Industrial Engineering student, I have to study quite a lot of statistics and often refer to various statistics tables while doing statistics questions. I don't like printing the tables out because I tends to lose them.

To read the tables quickly and conveniently, I loaded the link of my course website to a NFC sticker stuck on my ruler. As the writing only involves a simple web link, I used the NXP TagWriter to write the tag. When I use my web browser to access my website, I shared the website through TagWriter, then chose to write the website link to the tag. I found TagWriter quite nice. It is userfriendly and shows you the types of tag you can use to write your information but it would be even better if it can provide more functions.

Now, whenever I need the tables, I put my Nexus 7 onto the sticker to access my website, and choose the table I need for my question.

Writing tag through the sharing function is quite convenient as I don't have to open the nfc app for writing the tag every time - I just have to access the thing I want to write and press "share". This can be a new concept of sharing. We are all used to sharing through facebook or whatsapp... but I believe sharing through NFC tags can be fun in a different way.

NFC is for ads or aids during shopping?

It is really puzzling me that why those MBAs in RFID industries so lack of imagination, especially NFC label maker, they keep associating NFC with payment or advertising like getting best deal during shopping.

Smartphone buyers wouldn't bother to know whether we can shop or get discount using NFC when they are making buying decision. Even they purchased NFC-enabled smartphone, they will never touch the NFC setting which is by default-off.

These smart brains are completely out-of-words when they were asked what else NFC can be used. Even there are few, some of these applications appears a bit ridiculous to me; paring up a wristband and a pair of trainers? So that your android smartphone can record your fat-burning jogging process and heartbeats?

I seriously think NFC can be of better use, except pairing up with my rarely-used wireless speakers.For example, with a slightly modified e-ink display, we can use the NFC to "transfer" text from small phone screen on to the larger flexible display.

Even the simplest application such as Bookmarking, it is very useful and for sure will be evolved into other specific applications and business in soon future, such as NFC access analytics, or stock trading bookmark.

The ideas are there in user's mind. The biggest problem here now is we don't have enough NFC labels to play with and dispose them. So, if I were NXP and their NFC tag maker, I will provide tons of free label or sticker sample to NFC smartphone buyers. Many innovative and interesting applications will come out naturally.