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Nokia Hello: communicate via NFC with people you hate to speak with

jkOnTheRun  Feb 03 12

A Nokia research project called Nokia Hello leverages wireless technology with Near Field Communications (NFC) chips to help people "speak" to each other. I figured it would be a good solution when speaking to someone in a non-native language (it is), but Nokia suggests another use. Full story...



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