In an try to edge its way into the crowded mobile payments market, a brand new bank card scanning system is saying “ah, hell no!” to typing and swiping. Card.io is billed as an SDK that takes good thing about smartphone cameras to let devs accept credit, because, as its creators talk about, “typing on cellphones is slow, and most consumers do not have a separate hardware attachment .” When it is time to pull out the plastic, Card.io gets your phone’s camera going, and up pops just a little green rectangle, wherein you frame your card and snap a pic. Your bank card info is then processed by a 3rd-party merchant, and the main points are subsequently deleted out of your phone. Are you able to hear that? That is the sound of our chubby thumbs breathing a sigh of relief. The cardboard.io SDK for iOS is now available on the source link below, and an Android version needs to be close behind. For now, hop on past the break for a video demo.
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