Oyster scheme to offer a watch

Timepiece to join cards and phones for Tube payment

Oyster scheme to offer a watch . Gadgets, Watches, RFID, NFC, Swatch, Rumours, Jewellery 0

29 January 2008 10:48 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

The cashless payment scheme Oyster is to launch a new way to pay for London transport users, it is being reported.

As well as the Oyster cards, the Barclaycard-flavoured Oyster cards and a new Nokia/O2 phone trial, the scheme will extend the contactless payment to wristwatches.

The watch, which has built-in Oyster payment technology, has been trialled over the past 6 months by 500 members of Transport for London staff and is due to be rolled out later this year.

Oyster is apparently currently in discussions with several watch manufacturers, including Swatch, in order to decide who will be the official launch partner.

With the short range wireless technology used, wearers would just need to wave their watch near a contact point in order for the payment to be processed.

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  • Surely there is one rather obvious drawback to these Oyster watches. If my memory serves me correctly TfL smart-card readers are located to the right of the ticket barriers? Thus anyone who wears their watch on the left wrist (the vast majority of righted handed commuters) will have to perform some rather uncomfortable acrobatics to touch-in.

    Wouldn't a more discreet Oyster bracelet or ring be better suited to the ticket barriers as they are (designed) currently. I'd hate to think of the costs associated with switching the barriers around, or worse still the befuddlement caused due to people forgetting that they now wear their watch on their right wrist.     Posted by Lee, anubeon@gmail.com

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