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Cell phones of the future—available now in Japan:
One even has a biometric fingerprint sensor to ensure that no one can use the phone but its owner, and three of the five models come with a nifty function called FeliCa, which enables the 901i to serve as a digital wallet. You download cash into the phone’s guts, then simply swipe it over a FeliCa reader at the local mini-mart.
Almost anything else you might place in your wallet—a gym membership ID, video-store card or tickets to a concert—can be digitized on a FeliCa-enabled handset. Some apartment buildings in Tokyo are even making their locks compatible. Now that’s convergence.
