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Plastc is an e-ink, NFC ‘meta’ card that will (try to) replace your entire wallet
Time：2015/10/26 9:11:01
There’s a new company in town that wants to replace your credit, debit, and store cards with a single digital “meta” card: The unpronounceable and probably-conceived-during-a-drunken-game-of-scrabble Plastc. The Plastc Card is the same size and thickness (0.8mm) as a credit card, but it manages to pack in a battery, e-ink display, NFC, and other high-tech features, along with the usual magnetic strip. The sole purpose of Plastc is to combine all of your various cards and vouchers into a single device, significantly thinning down or obviating your wallet. It’s a nice idea — but is it actually technologically feasible? And aren’t we moving away from credit cards towards mobile payment solutions, anyway?
If Plastc sounds familiar, it’s because it’s very similar to Coin, a crowdfunded meta-card from 2013 that was meant to arrive this summer, but was recently pushed back to spring 2015. Coin originally cost $55 to pre-order, but it has since gone up to $100. Plastc costs $155 to pre-order, with an expected delivery date of “summer 2015.”
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