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the jazz mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that even holds tablets up to eight inches click now to learn more NFC for the uninitiated stands for Near Field Communication and is a wireless radio communication standard that is designed for very close-up and very power efficient transmission of small amounts of data integrated NFC readers are a popular feature on Android and Windows Phone smartphones and NFC tags can be found on anything from movie posters to trigger a trailer to play on YouTube to food packaging to direct you to the manufacturers website for nutritional information and recipe suggestions and as price continues to follow the technology becomes more ubiquitous I expect there will be all kinds of innovative uses for it that we can't even imagine right now but you don't have to run around and find NFC tags that contain useful functionality you can actually buy your own here is just such a device from tagger taggers near wave-type one NFC tags are like any NFC tag they're made up of a couple of key components including a very small amount of storage memory a radio chip and an antenna all of which is possibly powered which means they draw power from the device reading them that means you can put them almost anywhere unlike some other NFC tags they're designed to be applied unapplied bent creased and all of that without invalidating your warranty and they're covered on each side by a waterproof PVC a protective layer with a frustratingly strong 3m adhesive on the backside that we learned the hard way should probably only be applied to surfaces that you don't ever want to read your tag from Luke went and stuck a couple of them together like way to go Luke with that cautionary message in mind you can stick them to almost anything they do have some limitations though we found that they only really work very close up like almost touching so make sure there's actually enough clearance for you to get your phone next to it and they also don't work on metal surfaces unless you use an RF shield they're a little bit on the big side at three and a half centimetres squared but given that you have to get your phone in close to them I guess that last one is a bit of a non-issue which leads us into the big question here you want to buy your own NFC tags what can they be used for well with an app like trigger which we highly recommend you can set them up to do all kinds of things here are some cool examples that we came up with you can generate email shopping lists when you're out of stuff you can save grandma the frustration of navigating menus on her phone to place calls to loved ones you can set alarms at bedtime create a digital business card tap to enable bluetooth and start music playback when you get in your car then tap again and turn everything off when you leave you can enable your Wi-Fi hotspot so you can just put one on your laptop boom ready to go you can check in and out at home with a text message so your parents don't worry you can mute and dim the screen for school mode or other custom phone modes that you set up for yourself and you can even do things like create a silent alarm to call 9-1-1 if you think you're in danger and so much more but you guys aren't interested in all that stuff you want to see whether you can use NFC to do an easter egg hunt so rather than hiding real easter eggs this is winner-takes-all whoever finds all eight Easter eggs back there will NFC tags and then uses NFC reader in order to you know bloop go up against them wins this solid chocolate bunny best of luck best of luck may the best man win know you think we all know it'll be me oh that's why you don't want the best man to win yeah cuz that's me yeah well I don't know whether to be that's not very good trashed all right let's do this thing not it not it not it alright that's the last one last one I got where's the where's the fun of doing alliances aids alteon or alliances you just came from this way do you know where Linus's where is he show me go in the house is in here line is - what are you doing what did you even find any of them I don't I don't want it now how did you even manage get that all over your face so I guess I won and I wanted the chocolate bunny but I'm still going to classify this a win because I'm not that so I guess now is a good time to a bank tagger NSC for sending us their excellent NFC tags if we use to make this fun little video about NFC you can you can check them out online we'll put a link in the video description so you can see where to get them they're KD and company so you know we're KD into that kind of stuff not all comedians are like this don't judge me like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it we have a comment under the video let us know what you thought about it time over to the Linus tech tips forum if you like what we do and you want to join our community there's a support link in the video description as well so you can buy a t-shirt you can give us a monthly contribution more chocolate budget so that there's enough for everyone there gonna be enough for everyone and you can ah there's another thing to buy t-shirt guys say that oh yeah use our Amazon affiliate code when you shop at Amazon so that we get a kickback when you buy stuff so uh as always guys thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe you