Gadgetory

there are regular holiday cards and then there are nfc-enabled holiday cards with this DIY I'll show you how to create a holiday card that launches a video when you tap it with an Android smartphone the first thing we need to do is record that video greeting so to do that I'll launch a webcam recording program on my computer and record a short holiday greeting hey guys I just want to wish you happy holidays and a happy new year so now that I have my video recorded I'm going to upload it to my YouTube account and make sure that it's unlisted that way only the people who receive this card can view the video it won't be searchable under regular youtube search and within a few minutes it should be uploaded to my channel and I should have a link to that video at this point what I need to do is program this NFC tag so that when it's tapped with an android phone that holiday greeting video launches immediately right now this only works for android phones since Apple has locked the iphone 6 and 6 plus NFC capability to only work with Apple pay so for this I'll use trigger which is a free app for Android I'll hit the plus sign to create a new task and select NFC hit next and then done now we'll create the task so we'll hit next again hit the plus sign to create a task and then choose open a URL hit next and in this window will type in the URL for the video that I just uploaded then I'll hit add to task hit next and now I'll grab my NFC tag and hold it to the back of my phone so that it writes that action to the tag and it's done the last thing we need to do is adhere the NFC tag to my greeting card and these are great because they're actually adhesive I got a pack of 12 for about fourteen dollars I'll just peel the back off put it right on the greeting card just like that now in my recipient receives this card they'll see this little android logo and when they tag it they'll get a little video surprised hey guys I just want to wish you happy holidays and a happy new year if this is something you want to do with a lot of family and friends this year consider getting a pack of NFC tags happy holidays