Stickers to turn “anything” into wallets
Toppan Printing has developed a FeliCa sticker (called SMARTICS-sFe) that can be pasted on any appropriate physical objects including (non-wallet-phone) phones.
FeliCa is the RFID technology that are widely used in Japan, in particular, for payment and transportation applications. For example, SUICA, Wallet phones, and Edy use the FeliCa technology.
SMARTICS-sFe will likely be used at some schools, cram schools and companies -- they will paste SMARTICS-sFe on their existing IP phones.
Dr. Shin'ichi Konomi has been RFID in Japan's contributor since April of 2004. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan and was a postdoctoral research scientist at Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany. He has been building and testing various ubicomp applications using RFID since 1998. Shin'ichi often collaborated with his colleagues in Japan, co-organizing International Workshops on RFID (2004) and playing a role as a liaison for ALAN-K Project, an international project for introducing a new computer-supported learning environment for Japanese kids (2002). He also writes articles on technology and media arts in Japan for we-make-money-not-art.com.