Visa is introducing payment-connected winter gloves and two other wearables that will enable cashless payments at the upcoming Olympic Games in PyeongChang.
The company unveiled Wednesday its plans to offer Olympics attendees smart gloves that contain a dual interface chip with an antenna that will enable contactless payments throughout the venue, where Visa has installed more than 1,000 NFC-enabled point-of-sale terminals.
It will also offer four different commemorative Olympic lapel pins that enable payments and an array of thin, flexible adhesive micro tags that are embedded with NFC chips and antennas and can be attached to a variety of items, such as clothes and bags.