DressCode ships contactless shirt

Gimmick! Would I be confident going out with that and nothing else? No!

Pure marketing ... 

Neither would I.... I'd want trousers on too...

The term 'wearables' has been in use for a decade, but this is closest to its meaning. And, no - it's not a gimmick: clothing is a more realistic and practical path than skin-implanted chips. Beyond payment, the application use cases are endless (e.g. I hate pulling out my plastic-card pass at every door in our office, especially when my hands are busy with laptop + coffee + sandwitch :(  Same in public transport and many more potential applicatios - use your imagination :)

But would you really want to have to wear your NFC embedded shirt every day you were in the office?  When you're stuck in the stairwell with you laptop, coffee and sandwich but unable to get to your meeting on the floor above - all because today was a dress-down day and you wore a bog-standard t-shirt - you'd rue the day you ever set sight on one of these NFC shirts!  Maybe NFC underrpants would be safer.  Or maybe just stick with a smartwatch or ring.

> "But would you really want to have to wear your NFC embedded shirt every day you were in the office?.."

Who said you can/must have only one? It's a cheap NFC tag (intelligence is in the phone app) and one can have many, in each shirt if needed :) ))

"cheap" - its £135 unless I misread....

> "cheap  " - its £135 unless I misread....

That's for the fashion, not for the tech :) ))

They are selling the fashion not the tech? I only saw the shirts/cuff for sale not the nfc tag??

I think we went too far in this (somewhat less than enlightened) discussion. The point was just that new forms of wearable technology will keep appearing and user adoption (not online discussions here) will decide which of them will be forgottena nd which ones will last.

As to payments (the topic in the article) it's just one of too many use cases for wearable tech. Again, we are yet to see more of those coming, and time will show which applications have a sustainable future.

Back to work now (or life, for some of us ;)

V.