MasterCard recently announced a project that focuses on touch-less payments, and one of the most interesting manifestations of this project is a wearable payment system that revolves around clothes and accessories that the wearer can use to make touchless payments. The designer who conceived this dress is none other than Rihanna's trusted and favorite fashion designer Adam Selman.
What's awesome about this wearable payment clothing collection is that it comprises clothing that looks normal and fashionable and that people would actually wear, rather than looking like something so futuristic that it looks ridiculous. The clothes connect to a companion payment app on your phone via Bluetooth.
Wearable payments have been around in other forms, but none as appealing as this one revolving around regular and fashionable clothing.
Payment-Making Apparel
Adam Selman is Using Clothes and Accessories to Allow For Wearable Payment
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