These companies are using NFC tech**logy to identify diamonds
 

These companies are using NFC tech**logy to identify diamonds
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Near field communication, or NFC, is best k**wn for enabling mobile payments. Two companies are **w trying to apply the tech**logy to something more glamorous: The diamond industry.*

Thinfilm, which prints NFC tags, and Sarine Tech**logies, which develops tech**logies for diamonds and gemstones, are partnering to bring NFC to the precious stones.*

Thinfilm will print NFC tags that show a smartphone user the profiles of individual diamonds — the stone's history, its measurements, its grading and other information. Sarine already offers this information in online profiles, but **t directly connected to a diamond itself. The two companies are trying to use NFC tags to make the information more accessible to wholesalers and commercial buyers.* Read more...

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