Coming soon: Paying for stuff on Visa by waving your iPhone

Cool. I understand that the same technology can be adapted to use your iPhone as a drivers' license. Just tape your license to the back of the iPhone and when you need id, show the back of your phone.

In the UK, Tesco have an app that allows you to do a similar thing for getting points onto your Tesco Clubcard. You can't make payments though like this article hints at, but it's similar I guess. In Tesco, if you have a clubcard you can get points put onto it whenever you make purchases and each year there are rewards (vouchers, special offers etc) based on how many points you have. Instead of pulling out yet another card, you can just swing for iPhone by the terminal and that's it done. I really like it, but it would be even better if I could make the payment at the same time this way. Hope it eventually takes off.

Are we sure that B Parker's Visa number has for sure been retired, not updated to a new expiration date?

Not a bad idea at all. A Visa card you can access wirelessly and switch OFF if it is stolen.

Case?! While the premise of lightening my wallet sounds great... adding the extra bulk to the back of the iPhone negates it's usefulness. And if they HAVE to use an add on chip, can't they just make a little sticker that sticks to the back of your iphone or something?

This will never take. Your not paying with your iPhone. Your paying with a chip in your case. You might as well pay with a chip in your credit card like we already do. What a joke. Once again old school people trying to thing a new way.

Coming soon: Functions native to Japanese phones for many years! As an iPhone case!

If this doesn't have any form of confirmation in the phone software I could just use a RFID credit card, so what's the point? (I mean besides the convenience of possibly losing two important items at once...)

Aside from TUAW's tabloid quality titles... THIS IS LAME.

Serliously... why wouldn't I just TAPE my Visa card to the back of my iPhone? Duck tape anyone? Until this works without additional hardware (case) it pointless... Why wouldn't I just wave my card!

Hey I've got an idea they could create a laptop case and them I could just wave my laptop and pay for things... Or maybe a USB dongle for my desktop computer although that'd probably need to be plugged in so they'd need to include a really long power cord.

yeah this is ridiculous. I can do with with my AMEX right now. I could just put the card on the back of my iPhone and have the same thing.

Seriously Steven?

This title is pure bullshit.

It should be

"iPhone case with RFID chip for contactless payment in development"

but of course accurate titles wouldn't generate as many hits, would they?