A dress shirt which incorporates contactless payment technology in the cuff is set to go on sale this summer. The Cash Cuff shirt, developed by Cambridge-based DressCode[1], uses Mastercard-accredited wearable payments technology from K Wearables[2] to link a smartphone app with a contactless payments module sewn into the shirt.
A virtual credit card created within the module in the shirt allows the wearer to allocate specific amounts of money to the shirt from the app, make payments, monitor the usage and switch the payments chip on and off at will, DressCode says.
This isn’t the first outing for contactless cuffs: In 2014 a Swedish shirtmaker embedded NFC tags in shirt sleeves[3] as part of a customer-get-customer programme.
References
- ^ DressCode (www.dresscodeshirts.co.uk)
- ^ K Wearables (www.kwearables.com)
- ^ embedded NFC tags in shirt sleeves (www.nfcworld.com)
