Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Pay by Touch Wins INNY at DEMO 2006








2006 INNY Award Goes to Pay by Touch

Sheila Grinell from The Tech Museum of Innovation, a DEMO partner, announced The Tech's selections for its INNY Awards. INNYs are bestowed on DEMO innovations that will impact people's lives and reinforce The Tech's mission to inspire the innovator in everyone.

These DEMO 2006 INNY Award-winners' products will soon be available for the public to experience andexplore at The Tech Museum: * Pay By Touch * MooBella * Ugobe * Shimon Systems

A partnership between The Tech Museum and the DEMO conferences means technological innovation wins! The two organizations have teamed up to bring select DEMO technologies to The Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose, where innovative products are the focus of every exhibit.

Starting at DEMOfall 2005,

The Tech will hand out “Inny" awards at each DEMO conference to demonstrators with particularly inspired products that museum-goers will be able to explore first hand. These products will be displayed at a special "DEMO@TheTech" EnCounter area of the museum that offers hands-on, facilitated experiences with the newest and most impactful technologies around. Innys: INspiring INnovation, IN the know, and IN the museum.


Demo Says

There’s no more simple way to tender payment than the touch of a button, and that's what Pay By Touch Online offers consumers. A quick fingerprint scan triggers a debit or credit payment at the checkout or online.

In regional trials, consumers have overwhelmingly embraced the Pay By Touch Online system. And because it reduces fraud, speeds checkout, and requires little or no change to transaction processing, Pay By Touch Online is being adopted by national supermarket chains. If early trials are an accurate indicator, it won’t be long before we can leave our wallets at home and simply Pay By Touch.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/02/08/1354363.htm