Travel Payments to be Extended to Watches.

By: Emma | January 29, 2008

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There is to be a new way to pay for travel in London, they have already launched the cashless Oyster card scheme and the Nokia/O2 phone trial, now they want to use the contactless payment scheme and extend it to wrist watches.

Oyster are currently in negotiations with a couple watch manufacturers, Swatch being one of them. They will have to combine short range wireless technology to enable the payments to be processed when the wearer is next to a contact point.

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