Visa will be the only card accepted at official venues of this summer’s Olympic games in Rio this August. But the company doesn’t just want exclusive access to the wallets of hundreds of thousands of tourists, they are using the event to introduce a new ring that will let people pay with a wave of their hand: No phone, wallet or even battery needed.
The NFC-enabled payment ring is a prototype at this point and won’t be available to the general public in time for Rio. Instead, the Olympic Village will be a testing ground to find out how well it performs in the field.
Steph Curry gets his own emojis, tops sales list
If receiving consecutive MVP awards followed by the potential of consecutive Championship rings wasn’t enough, Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry has received his own emojis app.
What’s more is that after two days of release, the app has topped the most paid list, usurping that of Kim Kardashian.
With the app allowing purchasers to send Curry-like emojis to each other via messaging, it arrived just in time for the start of the NBA Finals which kicked off on Thursday 2 June between Curry’s Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Steph Curry emoji app now top paid app in store, passes Kim Kardashian emoji app pic.twitter.com/HIappKuSBI
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) June 2, 2016