I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
One of my insulin pens sends its data to my phone over NFC
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent I use it for payments only.
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One of my insulin pens sends its data to my phone over NFC
@pikesley oh! That's rather clever.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent I am the opposite - I have never used NFC on any of my phones!
The only time I use QR codes are when I have to authorise access for something, e.g. logging into some websites.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent NFC excluding Tap to Pay - Never.
QR codes - very rarely, especially random ones with no context to where they go. -
I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent Don't think I ever use NFC on my phone outside of tap-to-pay or transit cards.
Occasionally I read/write NFC tags or random transit cards, Mifare Classic
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@Edent NFC excluding Tap to Pay - Never.
QR codes - very rarely, especially random ones with no context to where they go.@Edent Oh hang on, I forgot the access cards for work which I suppose are NFC.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent I don't think I've come across a non-payment NFC "in the wild" since EMFCamp in 2024!
That aside, I have some programmable NFC discs that I have used for some plant tracking (I embed them into 3d printed labels). But I've not used them yet this year... it's one of those "seems like a nice techie idea, but it's really just a bit of a faff". Maybe if I was tracking 100s of plants it'd be more worth it. There's a chilli utoober called Chilli Chump who does this, but he does literally grow hundreds of plants across so many varieties... so it starts to cross the barrier into making sense then.
Anyway, perhaps a bit tangential lol...
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent since the start of 2026, both are zero. Before then, I recall scanning a QR code at a Yo Sushi to order food but that was a while ago.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent the only thing I use NFC for is my kids' Yoto players. The story cards are NFC and I use my phone to link podcasts and downloaded audio books to the "Make Your Own" cards.
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@Edent I don't think I've come across a non-payment NFC "in the wild" since EMFCamp in 2024!
That aside, I have some programmable NFC discs that I have used for some plant tracking (I embed them into 3d printed labels). But I've not used them yet this year... it's one of those "seems like a nice techie idea, but it's really just a bit of a faff". Maybe if I was tracking 100s of plants it'd be more worth it. There's a chilli utoober called Chilli Chump who does this, but he does literally grow hundreds of plants across so many varieties... so it starts to cross the barrier into making sense then.
Anyway, perhaps a bit tangential lol...
@Edent actually, since EMFCamp I think the last/only non-payment NFC use I can remember is using an app to scan my passport for UK immigration/visa services.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent
QR: rarely but not zero.
NFC: excluding phone payments, and also excluding when my phone "helpfully" reads the NFC in my passport or library book if I put them next to one another, zero. -
I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent I use NFC every day to pay for things at POS terminals in shops
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent i was talking to someone at a conference last week who'd figured out a way of using conductive ink to print RFID antenna on tickets, if that's in your zone of interest.
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@Edent i was talking to someone at a conference last week who'd figured out a way of using conductive ink to print RFID antenna on tickets, if that's in your zone of interest.
@bencurthoys oooh! Yes, that does sound interesting. Although I suppose it still needs the chip part adding?
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@spacehobo @Edent "I have a Fairphone 5 which has no capability for NFC" — I beg to differ.
I've been using that for as long as I had this phone. Payments, TfL, passport reading, it works fine.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent We use QR codes for cataloguing small people. We use a lot of QR codes.
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I've been writing about NFC and QR codes for over a decade. So I have a question for you.
Since the start of 2026, which have you done more - scanned a QR code or used NFC on your phone (excluding tap-to-pay)?
If you regularly use NFC, please reply and tell me what you use it for. Thanks!
The Problem With RFID
RFID is like cold fusion. It will revolutionise everything - and it's only five years away! Terence Eden And, much like cold fusion, NFC will permantently be just around the corner. It's been "The Year of NFC" since 2008. Just like it was in 2009 and in 2010. Today the news came that Google may be abandoning QR codes in favour of NFC for its business places service. I think this is a mistake …
Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
@Edent I use NFC discs as light switches like a lunatic.
I could buy IoT buttons, but NFC discs are dirt cheap and I'm lazy.
