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Starbucks Japan is selling pens with built-in NFC wallets www.theverge.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 7 months ago

Starbucks is releasing a new hardware product in Japan this month, and it’s a pen.
Not a stylus or anything — an actual pen, with “coffee brown” gel ink, a drip coffee machine-inspired design, and the built-in ability to pay for things at Starbucks.
“Starbucks Touch: The Pen,” for that is its name, contains an NFC reader that’s linked to a digital wallet.
It works with FeliCa technology, which is ubiquitous in Japan and powers Starbucks’ popular domestic card system.
This is actually the fourth product in the Starbucks Touch line in Japan, which has also included a phone case and a flask.