NFC Task Launcher Maker Tagstand Partners With T-Mobile, Other Carriers and OEMs

I wish there would be more NFC enabled devices: I think its a really nifty way to initiate contact between electronics. I see a future where one device, most likely the cellphone, will be the 'remote' for all other household devices. Tagstand sounds promising, but I would also prefer the app to be as invisible as possible, once the functions are defined/set.

In my case, I use my N9 to turn on and connect to my Nokia Play 360 speakers[0] by just tapping it. It's really cool and I'm surprised the novelty of it hasn't worn off even after a year of use.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Play-Bluetooth-Speaker-Black/dp/...

I worked at a big company with a large warehousing infrastructure, and developed mobile apps to help them work their inventory: cycle-counting, checkin/checkout, etc. They were primarily using barcoding (Motorolla MC9090's, just like the WalMart scanners), because our RFID tags were generally unreliable for most inventory applications.

RFID/NFC just never made it that big in the inventory space.

Programmable "Actions" seem much cooler and bring out the imaginative hacker in me, just like ifttt. But, I'm lacking vision here. Does anyone have a link to a kick-ass example of someone using TagStand?

NFC = Near Field Communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication

Maybe I'm behind the curve on this one :)

Wow, this is a huge partnership. Opens up a massive range of end-user possibilities. Very exciting; can't wait to play with this myself.