In this instance, NFC stands for Near Field Communications, a two-way RFID technology built into some cellphones [1]. This is not adequately explained in the K

In this instance, NFC stands for Near Field Communications, a two-way RFID technology built into some cellphones [1]. This is not adequately explained in the Kickstarter, nor is it mentioned in anyone else's HN comments so far. That two-way RFID is implemented in commonly-used smartphones is a bit of tech trivia I didn't know until this article convinced me to Wikipedia [2] NFC. In retrospect, I'm not sure why I even clicked on this -- to people in the US, an "NFC ring" is given to the winners of the NFC Championship football [3] [4] game [5]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication [2] If Google can be a verb, so can Wikipedia. [3] If you're not from North America, odds are that the sport you call "football" is actually soccer. [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872981 [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFC_Championship_Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFC_Championship_Game