Jun 17, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: A Slick Concept for a Wristband That Manages Your Money

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Seattle-based product design studio Artefact has developed Token, a wearable concept that distills a ton of financial information into a simple series of touch interactions.
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Smartphones seem poised to make our wallets obsolete, thanks to a raft of payment apps, but the Artefact team sees a problem: each app exists in a vacuum, and they can't all sync with a bank statement.

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Process-Visual Design
With Token, users could pay for goods, give and collect funds from other users, and check multiple bank accounts.
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Token's success would hinge on a payments ecosystem that does not yet exist. In a Token-enabled world, the Artefact team imagines that all vendors could either accept payments beamed through Bluetooth, or scan a Token-generated QR code.

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On Arm Retail Setting
In many ways, Token mimics the user experience of fitness trackers. It catalogues activity, tracks patterns and insights, and can use to data to promote better behavior.
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On Arm 2up Authentication
Token is also carefully designed for security. It activated when it senses a human pulse and it uses either fingerprint detection or a PIN number to unlock.

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