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NFC-Enabled Towel Clips

The 'Ninja Clip' Clips onto Your Towel to Integrate Smart Features

— January 8, 2018 — Lifestyle
The 'Ninja Clip' is a multifunctional piece of equipment for gym users that will provide them with a hygienic way to carry their towel and incorporate a series of smart functionalities. Clipping onto your favorite towel, the device boasts an NFC chip that will allow you to tap your smartphone to it to play your workout playlist, change various settings and much more.

Workout technology is quickly becoming commonplace for many athletic enthusiasts who are recognizing the many ways that new solutions can help enhance their capabilities. This is seeing new devices like the 'Ninja Clip' being developed to discreetly add smart functionalities without the need for complicated setups. The clip can also be used for keeping your towel around your neck or to hold your headphones and cables in place.
Trend Themes
1. Smart Towel Accessories - Developing smart features integrated into gym towel accessories presents opportunities for innovation in the workout technology market.
2. Nfc-enabled Wearables - The 'Ninja Clip' showcases an opportunity for NFC integration in wearables, particularly in the sports accessories space.
3. Hygiene-focused Fitness Gear - Gym-goers are becoming more hygiene-conscious, and developing products that address this concern can disrupt the fitness gear market.
Industry Implications
1. Sports Accessories - Integrating new technology such as NFC into sports accessories presents a disruptive opportunity to offer innovative products to athletic enthusiasts.
2. Wearables - The development of the 'Ninja Clip' shows that there is potential to integrate NFC technology into wearables, presenting an opportunity for innovation in this growing market.
3. Fitness Equipment - A growing hygiene-consciousness amongst gym-goers presents a disruptive opportunity to develop innovative gym accessories to address this need.
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