Want to feel like a spy? Stick a smart chip in your manicure

A few months ago, I was stuffed my face with Christmas definition file Warning. The Tawdry watch was a typical reality TV. The effect associated with the wished strikes wear ninth clothes, and they are granted their aroma made from bruises and the reformulation of Minutiae about the reason for their crashes in front of a global audience. Type of HOM, in fact. After that, the member member Zina Cisay raised me from your going from cookies by upgrading cow meat to the twenty -first century.

“I have evidence of text messages,” she was smiling as he was wandering around the Celebrity Host in the C Nick Lachey menu with an outstretched thumb. “I have a slice on my darkest.”

Cut to the camera enlargement on the mentioned fine chips. After Lachey wiped his phone, a folder entitled “The receipts” appeared in a magically. I replaced cookies for popcorn. However, the studio fans, all tiktok, lost, and these references combined our minds combined.

Never say that you cannot find an inspiration to review the tools from TV TV.

The finding of the smart nail chip was easy. Essentially because Cisay A video posted useful Explain the chip that you bought and how to prepare it. the Jakcom N3 smart nail chip It comes in groups from five, 10 and 20 at a price of about 20 dollars, $ 36 and $ 60. (Retail price is higher, but in the three months you have, it appears to be permanently displayed.) GIST is that it uses connections close to the field (NFC)-the same technology that allows payments without connection-to transfer data to the phone.

The life of the technical journalist is not like a reality TV star. Certainly it includes keeping receipts, but there is no scenario as I will raise my guaranteed thumb to the sky and raise the sound loudly.

So what can I, an ordinary person, do it already with a smart nail slice?

Therefore, let’s quickly get up. What is the NFC nail slice? It is a small box that slips the bottom or above the nail and allows you to click on your phone to do things. I used it to send texts properly during the meetings. While suffering from the NJ Transit bus, I used it to order iced coffee in Starbucks at the Port Authority South suite. I may sometimes use it to play the topic John Cena theme when I won an argument with my wife (and entertaining cats). But in order to do any of this, you should be able to wipe the slide quickly and reliably and without wondering whether the slide has gone out of the nail.

Jakcom’s default settings allow you to prepare links for social media definition files, communication information, e -commerce devices and payment platforms such as EBay, Venmo, Paypal, Amazon, Cashapp and others more popular in Asia such as shoppers, Albaba and Clebay. There is also a brief collection of “jobs” such as writing “finger notes” (it is a browser note), a daily tower created by artificial intelligence, and a menstrual calculator. In theory, you can use it as a wireless storage for up to 128 GB of data on the slide, such as the thumb engine, but I did not get this feature of work.

But before I can know the best way to use this slide, I faced another problem to solve it. Nail and nail polish chips on reputation. How can I attach this thing to its nails and get it truly Blind?

Wiping the NFC nail slice is not just smooth as paying the price of the metro or items in the store. I quickly learned that most people have no idea about the NFC antenna for their phone. (Initially, I was not.) Most of the owners of iPhone, for example, believe it is located near the camera stumbling. Not so – it is along the upper edge of the phone. On Android, it can vary anywhere from the middle of the back to the top of the phone. This usually means that people will take advantage of their phones on their nails, and we were standing there, while waiting for something. Most of the time, this has ended with a friend or co -worker who was their forehead, and asked me why I was interested in doing this when I can only text Information.

After three months of the test, I can now get the slide to wipe 95 percent of the time. Learn that this requires a lot of money, glue, and enthusiastic commitment to the thing that left me wondering about my opinion. As with any manicure, everything is summarized in preparatory and appropriate application.

Each slice is a flexible 5 mm box with a thickness of 0.12 mm, including adhesive support. This is the volume of eraser on a pencil number 2 in the old school, and on thin like a strand of hair. Somehow, this is sometimes too big and thick for the application easily.

JAKCOM Instructions offer two options for the application:

I tried the previous one. My natural nail may be abnormal, but I couldn’t get the slide to settle. The edges will always raise. To settle and cover the slide, you need generous balls from the Polish. All I had to show my efforts was a chaotic nail. Hardly elegant. The use of glue on the brush and a top -sized coat was better, but it is not completely secret.

After my failure, I chose to try the slide with the press. You can see my first attempt in these pictures, and I am pleased to say it has succeeded. Although the instructions over the use of conservative glue, my co -workers have succeeded in examining the slide. You can get a NFC notification on your phone as if you were with any other mark with instructions to open a link or run the Apple Fortcuts app.

In one of the examples, I prepared the “Feter MEMO” feature, a notebook based on the browser in which you can write anything, and jokingly wrote “Please save my chicken” on (I have no chicken.) However, I slowly wiping. Unfortunately, this method is not durable or long -term. Although it is only a thin 0.12 mm, placing the slide below the press creates enough water to leak from the glue and weaken it. He flew the next day after bathing. I formulate the nail. She worked until she jumped in a hot tub after two days.

Loss of nail. The slide has been destroyed.

This is how weeks of experience and error started. After dozens of Tiktok Press-on Application, $ 50 of nail sets, and a lot Glue, I can now tell you that the best position is the lower edge of pressure along medium to long. (See the image above.) That allows you to stay in its position and easily mediate the slide. If you use several thin layers of nail glue in the brush, you can “close” the slide to resist bathing, bathrooms and washing dishes. However, I recommend setting up every few days.

If you are limited to Jakcom’s default programming, I say this is not worth this effort. However, you can also use the chip as a normal NFC. I got the iPhone, so I used the Apple Vancuts app to re -program the slide to something more useful. (I couldn’t test this on Android, but you may be able to use applications like NFC or Tasker tools to do something similar.)

For example, I can now program the nail chip to send my wife ETA when I leave the office. When I leave, I wipe my thumb, it opens my text with my wife, and begins the Apple examination feature in the temporary. All I have to do is hit a send. Instead, I can use the default shortcut to wipe the slide and send “I am late!” A notification of scheduled calendar events. I can also use it to enter the Starbucks arrangement or open the shazam. The only limit is your creativity and programming ingenuity.

Once the shortcut application opens more possibilities, I felt like James Bond, especially on the days when I was wearing smart Ray-Ban Meta glasses. I was walking in crowded places and no one looks at me so that my glasses could record it and failed a small chip foil to start recording the conversations when exploiting. I did not use the last job outside the test. It is Clunky compared to a microphone or hidden registrar. But the important point is that I can do this if you like, and that was great and disturbing.

If you are a more dramatic person, I have seen myself using this slide in real small ways, Dystopian. Fortunately, I am Aries with limited patience for real drama.

This slide is logical only if you have a state of use where the estimate or comfort is a key, the skill to program it effectively, patience to test it, then the confidence that you know will work when needed. The more complicated the task, the more the way you fail. Some of the ideas that I tried either did not work because the shortcuts can be noisy, or in the middle of the road through the experiment, I realized that it is faster to use my phone.

This is the essence of the problem. It is a theatrical and attractive bodies. I felt cold, a little mysterious, wearing one. But for ordinary people who live in an ordinary life, it requires an impartial amount of effort for few bonuses. maybe You’ll be in CES next year using this instead of the work card. Most likely, I will leave the dramatic taste of reality TV.