Now you can go shopping with your mobile phone

Within 12 to 18 months, claim handset makers, this Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, which allows the handsets to buy and store low value electronic tokens (such as sport and transport tickets), will start being standard on new handsets.

But is it safe?

Wright says "a lot of work" has been done with credit card suppliers such as Visa and MasterCard to ensure the system is securely encrypted. "Unlike a wallet, if your phone is stolen it can be deactivated over the airwaves," Wright says.

"Also, downloading credit onto the phone would be PIN protected, so a thief could not download extra money and go on a spending spree. Although the technology is mobile, nobody can interrogate your handset to steal money from it because only a proper reader can deduct money from a phone, and that reader can only work over a couple of centimetres ."

Connecting the real world & the internet with CC: the C-shirt project

Here’s the process a C-shirt user follows: first, the person finds someone with a Creative Commons “Some Rights Reserved” logo on their shirt – this indicates they are wearing a C-shirt design. The person then takes a photograph using their cell phone, for example, of the QR code stuck to the C-shirt. When the photo is loaded onto the site the person is redirected to the URL where that particular design is stored.

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