http://zaxy.com/behold-the-square/ Three girls with a love of all things geek! Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:52:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://zaxy.com/behold-the-square/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Valerie Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:22:52 +0000 http://zaxy.com/?p=265#comment-10 It looks like a really cool idea, and if it catches on I bet websites like ebay and amazon will accept encrypted credit card swipes, so it would be more secure...as far as the encoding goes, the iPod Shuffle (or at least old versions) gets the music loaded onto it through the headphone jack. But yeah, how the heck are you supposed to pay at actual shops with that? It seems like it will costs stores to set up to accept that kind of payment... It looks like a really cool idea, and if it catches on I bet websites like ebay and amazon will accept encrypted credit card swipes, so it would be more secure…as far as the encoding goes, the iPod Shuffle (or at least old versions) gets the music loaded onto it through the headphone jack. But yeah, how the heck are you supposed to pay at actual shops with that? It seems like it will costs stores to set up to accept that kind of payment…

]]> http://zaxy.com/behold-the-square/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Andrew Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:59:07 +0000 http://zaxy.com/?p=265#comment-4 Aside from electronic receipts, what's the difference between swiping it to your phone and swiping it to the cash register? Does this mean that cash registers have to be revamped to 'beam' the price, and description of the purchase to phones? How does an audio jack provide the digital coding necessary to do all that o.O Aside from electronic receipts, what’s the difference between swiping it to your phone and swiping it to the cash register? Does this mean that cash registers have to be revamped to ‘beam’ the price, and description of the purchase to phones? How does an audio jack provide the digital coding necessary to do all that o.O

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