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Tagstand (YC S11) NFC-Enables A Giant Party, Lets Guests Tweet From Wristbands

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I'm intrigued to see that the readers (as shown) (http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/tagstand-is-nfc-enabling-a-...) appear to be Arduino boards, with what looks like an Adafruit NFC/RFID breakout board (https://www.adafruit.com/products/364) and a mini-breadboard bare-wired to another IC.

Two questions:

* Are the readers going to be in enclosures on the night?

* Are you looking for a developer with Arduino (and some Android) experience? :)

yes, and yes, though for the latter we do actually have someone contracting for us right now. no harm in talking though? ping us at founders at tagstand.

It's twitter for your wrist, how many billions is that worth?

interesting, never thought of it like that!

What I don't really get is how the twitter/facebook is linked to your wristband. Do you "sign in" for the party at some sort of kiosk? Or once you get home?

http://www.manhattancocktailclassic.com/NFC_at_the_gala.html Yep it was done beforehand.

I hope I get lots of likes for my seersucker suit (Thanks, Bonobos! I'm one of the lucky gentlemen mentioned in the article). Excited to combine two of my fave things in one night: technology & cocktails.

Actually really interested in this and will be contacting Tagstand on Monday to talk about doing this sort of thing at a few upcoming events... Had checked out their site before and been tempted to order something just to play around with on a personal level but not got round to it, didn't previously think of this particular use, though.

yeah, email me kul at tagstand, look forward to it.

Tagstand or someone needs to create an NFC ring I can wear to unlock my phone instead of the cumbersome patterns, etc.

wow that's weird: we've been discussing this. what'll also be cool is if in the future you can customise devices for yourself just by picking them up.

right now nfc is off if the phone is in locked mode (for security reasons). hmmm...

It doesn't appear to be off, at least not in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01cRuB2_5AE

but yea, you first conquer the simple problem of locked phones, then you can move to anything once you have adoption and some data.

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