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Re: Plastc Card

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Post by ggypro »

zo1 wrote: post #198
abalone wrote: post #181

Faked video. I downloaded it and went frame-by-frame and you can see the card display contents move around with changing margins. It's all CGI. Not that it's inherently wrong to do simulations, but this is notable because they don't include a "this is a simulation" disclaimer (AFAICS).

It was quite obviously either completely rendered, or rendered on top of an actual video. It felt like a plain commercial, with "cgi" added ontop of it for effect. I mean, no one expects little flying transparent windows to pop out the side of their card, do they? Of course not. So I don't think they were doing it surreptitiously, but merely to make a pretty "commercial" to sell their product.

somepeople are just butthurt about sth

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by baddox »

prawn wrote: post #186
abalone wrote: post #181

Faked video. I downloaded it and went frame-by-frame and you can see the card display contents move around with changing margins. It's all CGI. Not that it's inherently wrong to do simulations, but this is notable because they don't include a "this is a simulation" disclaimer (AFAICS).

Sometimes it's necessary to make sure screen contents are legible in a video. You can see someone doing it for the app demo video here: https://medium.com/@djfumberger/lets-make-a-promo-d32e15d574...

But it also makes it tempting to make the interface appear much better than it actually is. If you're faking it to "make it legible," heck, why not just make it looks really nice as well? Companies like Apple have gotten in trouble for faking their interfaces in advertisements.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by baddox »

staz wrote: post #213
mattmaroon wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a lot of cards. Between gift cards, loyalty cards, and credit cards, I have at least 20-30 that I'd like to carry on me. I end up leaving cards I don't use every day in my car (and am always paranoid about the valet as a result). I use a KeyRing app for loyalty cards, but it's a pain and requires me often typing numbers into things. I often find myself in a Starbucks, realizing I left the Starbucks gift card i…

I don't get how you can end up with so many cards, it's seems like a very american problem. I have 5 cards in my wallet: * Debit card and a Visa credit card: both with chip&pin and allowing me to do secure transaction on the internet * A public transport card: RFC, also allow me to rent bikes * An ID card, also with a chip&pin, allow me to sign documents and fill my taxes * An insurance card which is not even a magne…

I'm an American, and I have no idea how someone ends up with that many cards. I carry two: my credit card and by debit (ATM) card. I could easily leave the latter behind, since I very rarely use, but it feels prudent to keep it with me in case I need cash in an emergency. Beyond that, I could understand having a single company credit card if it makes sense for your job (it doesn't for mine).

For gift cards, I suppose it would be nice to have those all aggregated, but I do very little brick and mortar shopping, and virtually no impromptu brick and mortar shopping where having a library of loyalty cards with me at all times would be useful.

The same applies to loyalty cards. I do have a Macy's card, but they can just look that up for you at the store, so I don't carry it. I've probably lost the physical card.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by jrockway »

rtpg wrote: post #218
penprog wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really believe you can fit an eink display, a touch screen digitizer, a microcontroller, bluetooth and nfc on a card that thin and sell it for 155 dollars?

I'm pretty sure nfc can be passive, the e-ink display doesn't use energy when not changing, and the "touch screen digitizer" could just be a button that is actually a contact (i.e. most of the time the microcontroller is passive). Also, you could make the card thicker in areas where it doesn't matter (away from the stripe and the PIN

You can't, actually. Consider things like the ATMs that suck in the entire card, or things like Metrocard vending machines that require you to insert the credit card in a slot.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by selectodude »

andrewdietrich wrote: post #223
dsjoerg wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, the remote-wipe ability is a killer app. Currently, when I lose a physical card, I have to go through a painful get-a-new-card procedure that involves going to my major websites and giving them my new card #. With remote wipe, when I lose my card I just remote-wipe it and order a new one. Also, this card will warn me when I'm too far from it so I won't be as likely to leave it behind.

We're working on this exact headache, and we believe it's a killer app. Plastc can't solve this problem for you - the moment your card is swiped or entered into a merchant form, it's vulnerable to being stolen and can't be solved with a "remote wipe." What's needed is the ability to make payments with multiple numbers. To silo your merchant relationships and restrict how a number can be spent. And to also to deactiva…

That's essentially how Apple Pay works.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by jrockway »

iaw wrote: post #160
kolev wrote: post #117

Am I do only one having a huge (yet still growing) list of preordered and backed projects and waiting for their delivery? If I sum up the pending ones up, it's thousands of dollars. If I put all that money in the stock market and buy the products after they are on the market, and read the reviews, I'm sure I'll be saving money and not be worried that I'm getting schemed all the time.

I'd supplant savings account with stock market. The stock market is a little frothy as of late and a pull-back has been in the works for a while.

The money in your savings account decreases in value with inflation, so that's not a risk-free strategy either. Maybe inflation-indexed treasuries are what you want, but those are also not risk-free!

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by Karunamon »

JTon wrote: post #149
mattmaroon wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a lot of cards. Between gift cards, loyalty cards, and credit cards, I have at least 20-30 that I'd like to carry on me. I end up leaving cards I don't use every day in my car (and am always paranoid about the valet as a result). I use a KeyRing app for loyalty cards, but it's a pain and requires me often typing numbers into things. I often find myself in a Starbucks, realizing I left the Starbucks gift card i…

For loyalty cards, why not use passbook or equivalent?

I've got 12 cards in my wallet right now. Passbook accepts one of them. I'm unaware of any equivalents that would work with even a majority of them.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by mbesto »

abalone wrote: post #181

Faked video. I downloaded it and went frame-by-frame and you can see the card display contents move around with changing margins. It's all CGI. Not that it's inherently wrong to do simulations, but this is notable because they don't include a "this is a simulation" disclaimer (AFAICS).

In other words, the product doesn't actually exist. This is a very Kickstarter-esque way to (1) assess demand and (2) generate revenue.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by ck2 »

I had to check if it was april fools.

No way you could make something as thin as a real credit card do all this in 2015 and have a battery, etc.

Maybe by 2020, but not yet.

Re: Plastc Card

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Post by ck2 »

abalone wrote: post #181

Faked video. I downloaded it and went frame-by-frame and you can see the card display contents move around with changing margins. It's all CGI. Not that it's inherently wrong to do simulations, but this is notable because they don't include a "this is a simulation" disclaimer (AFAICS).

Of course it is fake. You can't do this with today's technology, or next years, at least not for $150

Go look at the actual thinness of a credit card.

The battery would have to be 90% of the surface area even with e-ink.

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