Probably the most interesting use from that definition is contactless transactions ie. paying for things using your mobile phone. Perhaps buying your milk down at the local dairy. A company called Moneto is trying to bring NFC to the masses via a micro SD card that has an NFC chip embedded. The system utilises MasterCard’s PayPass NFC system which is gaining traction in the US and will undoubtedly go global.
Moneto are looking to make their NFC micro sd card compatible to three dozen phones from Samsung, Motorola, Sony, HTC, LG, and Huawei. As always this is kicking off in the US, but with Mastercard being utilised it's not unthinkable that we'll get this in little old New Zealand.
If you're curious head to the Android market to have a squiz at Moneto's app.
