Imperial College London have devised a method to insert NFC antennas into ‘smart’ clothing, potentially paving an affordable way to develop applications for monitoring health, medical diagnostic tools and air pollution measurement.

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Hyundai is to introduce a digital key on new Hyundai and Kia cars which go into production later this year. The technology will use a smartphone app and NFC to replace a physical key.

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Pioneering Anglo-American musician, Beatie Wolfe, has created a ‘smart album’ using NFC-enabled business cards – each card links to an individual and regularly updated dynamic webpage for the music track.

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The Church of England has been trialling the use of digital collection boxes that enable contactless payments using a card or smartphone.  An increase of 97% in donations has been reported, as the trial continues to take place in 12 churches around the UK.

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This year’s Golden Globes awards had an embedded NFC chip, giving proof of authenticity and containing digital content such as name of winner, category and year of award, thus ensuring each award was unique.

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Specially designed NFC jumpers were worn by fundraisers during Xmas to enable Londoners to make contactless £2 donations to Save the Children’s annual Christmas Jumper Day appeal.

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Listen to this fascinating clip from ‘The Digital Human’ radio series on BBC4: A spark of hope in the dark