Friday, April 3, 2009

The Next New Thing

The first new media that I could think of is "The New Cellphone." It is actually convergence of wallet and cellphone. In other word, we could use our cellphone as a credit card. If you go to a grocery store there are credit card machine that allow us to just tap the card without swiping it. This tapping can be done because of the micro-chip that is embeded into the card. We could just take that micro chip and put it into our cellphone. Then, we could just tap our cellphone onto that machine and all transactions are done. (We don't need to carry our wallets around.)

Another new media is unified ticket machine in bus, subway and LIRR. When we take subway or bus, we need to buy tickets and often we forget to refill our tickets and also we could lose tickets easily. In order to prevent these inconvineince, we could merge creditcard machine into transportation ticketing machine. When we get on the bus or subway, we don't need to wait in the line to buy ticket, but just swipe or tap the credit card we are good to go. Isn't it great and fast? lol

1 comment:

  1. Jinwoo,

    Your idea with the merging of transportation ticketing would be great to see put in place. It would improve life for many of us and probably help the mta to get more business.

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