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Samsung Announces TecTiles, Brings Programmable NFC Tags to the Masses

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Re: Samsung Announces TecTiles, Brings Programmable NFC Tags to the Masses

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Post by 51Cards »

Simple use... two of these by the door would make my life easier.

Going out: turn off WiFi, turn on GPS, Bluetooth, turn up the ringer volume and screen brightness, etc.

Coming in: do the reverse.

Of course I can make it even easier with On{X} and trigger the same on detection of my home WiFi network (other than turning off WiFi of course)

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Post by zheng »

Its things like this that will hopefully continue the push of automation in general society. We as hackers have long seen the power in automation, but the general public sees a computer as something that is powerful, but adds complexity to their life. Apple does a great job at fighting this image that technology == complexity, and that's part of why they are successful, IMHO. I just can't wait until the real wave of automation hits the general market with force.

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Post by gojomo »

51Cards wrote: post #2

Simple use... two of these by the door would make my life easier. Going out: turn off WiFi, turn on GPS, Bluetooth, turn up the ringer volume and screen brightness, etc. Coming in: do the reverse. Of course I can make it even easier with On{X} and trigger the same on detection of my home WiFi network (other than turning off WiFi of course)

When you lose the home Wifi signal, do the 'going out' actions (including turn off Wifi). When GPS tells you you're back home, do the 'coming in' actions (including Wifi back on). Seems even smoother than NFC touchpoints.

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Post by [deleted] »

51Cards wrote: post #2

Simple use... two of these by the door would make my life easier. Going out: turn off WiFi, turn on GPS, Bluetooth, turn up the ringer volume and screen brightness, etc. Coming in: do the reverse. Of course I can make it even easier with On{X} and trigger the same on detection of my home WiFi network (other than turning off WiFi of course)

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Re: Samsung Announces TecTiles, Brings Programmable NFC Tags to the Masses

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

[deleted] wrote: post #6
51Cards wrote: post #2

Simple use... two of these by the door would make my life easier. Going out: turn off WiFi, turn on GPS, Bluetooth, turn up the ringer volume and screen brightness, etc. Coming in: do the reverse. Of course I can make it even easier with On{X} and trigger the same on detection of my home WiFi network (other than turning off WiFi of course)

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That would be a vulnerability inherent in the OS / tag-reading software itself, and would need to be dealt with just like any other threat (malicious file downloads, URLs, etc.)

Under normal circumstances the phone shouldn't have any bug causing it to execute anything read from the NFC tag as code.

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Post by Blara »

51Cards wrote: post #2

Simple use... two of these by the door would make my life easier. Going out: turn off WiFi, turn on GPS, Bluetooth, turn up the ringer volume and screen brightness, etc. Coming in: do the reverse. Of course I can make it even easier with On{X} and trigger the same on detection of my home WiFi network (other than turning off WiFi of course)

You would only need one and toggle the actions instead :) That's what I did anyway, but the biggest drawback (at least on galaxy nexus) is that the phone needs to be unlocked to read NFC.

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Post by kul »

sturmeh wrote: post #5

... or you could get them here: http://www.tagstand.com/ for a third of the price and use an app that ties in with the existing profile infrastructure like tasker.

thanks. kul from Tagstand here. Submitted this to see what HN had to say. We've been working on NFC Task Launcher (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jwsoft.nfc...) for a while now, which is similar to this Samsung app.
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