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After deciding you deserve a cappuccino — earned following a particularly good workout — you can now use your Jawbone UP4 bracelet to pay for it. Jawbone, which makes cool Bluetooth things, has done a deal with Amex to add a pay-by-bonk account to its exercise-measuring wrist decoration. The $199 UP4 will initially only allow …

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  2. Justicesays
    Devil

    So, it has to have an NFC capable terminal AND take Amex?

    So, where is this one coffee shop located?

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  3. Yugguy

    How does a bracelet "help" you sleep?

    "You look like you're going to sleep. Shall I sing you a lullaby"

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  4. Wombling_Free

    Is it too much too hope?

    For a piece of hardware from Jawbone that isn't totally crap?

    I was given an UP2, which got sent back 3 times due to button falling off.

    The fourth time the button fell off I just put it in a drawer and left it there.

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  5. Regbs

    I know I'm not the only sucker who clicked on this article expecting pay by bonk to mean something else.

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    1. Archaon
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      Coat

      "I know I'm not the only sucker who clicked on this article expecting pay by bonk to mean something else."

      You're thinking of pay to bonk...

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    2. Mark 85
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      Coat

      That would require some surgery and a chip implant... not for the faint of heart. And there's the problem of bonking the machine at checkout. Might get you arrested in some parts of the world.

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  6. Ben Bonsall

    Year of NFC

    Doesn't sound half so interesting as Year of Bonking.

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  7. dogged

    waterproof?

    So did they crack the waterproofing thing or not?

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    1. Thomas Wolf
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      Re: waterproof?

      Apparently not. The UP3 I think ended up with IP67 certification - ok to wash hands with and maybe take into the shower - but not for prolonged submersion as in swimming. So the UP4 just adds heart monitoring and this insecure payment feature (who cares that it uses "tokens" - someone can still just steal your UP4 and pay for stuff before you report it stolen.

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  8. TechGuy456

    Watching with interest

    I had a similar experience with the second Jawbone UP band. Three bands had three different faults within the first year. After the third failed I took it back to the Apple store who gave me a refund.

    I see the design has changed to be more like a watch strap which may make it less prone to failure.

    Hopefully they will also allow you to disable bluetooth as well.

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    1. keith_w
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      Re: Watching with interest

      Probably not, since this will be how they communicate with the health app.

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