We are at the Picnic 07 conference in Amsterdam, where we are participating in the Mediamatic RFID hackers camp.

There are six projects using RFID to track, entertain, frighten and socialise the 1500 or so participants, who have all been tagged with RFID keychains.
You can follow the progress at the Mediamatic weblog and come visit [...]

Another video demonstrating NFC technology. Look past the promotional spin and there are a lot of interesting clips of various NFC technologies in use.

Felica is developed by Sony and is compatible with NFC standards.

Discovered today is Airtag, makers of the AIR kiosk:

“AIRKIOSK is an interactive kiosk especially designed for points of sales.
AIRKIOSK is connected to the AIRTAG central application platform.
Multi-standard, it can read all RFID tags and cards (13,56MHz). Applications include: Express ordering kiosk, Contactless payment, Identification and animation on the POS, Loyalty and couponning, Interactive advertisement.”

Their overall [...]

Some recent news and links: The Daily Telegraph reports that the London Oyster card may soon offer NFC at least in a trial form:

“Mobile phone companies Orange, O2 and Nokia are in talks with Transport for London about using phones instead of Oyster Cards to pay for tube tickets [...] O2 is talking to Tube [...]