A Manicure That Doubles As A Subway Card?
For her final graduate project, Lucie Davis designed a set of acrylic nails that also doubles as an Oyster card, the plastic card with which Londoners pay for rides on the tube.
21 July 2016
| Lacey Glave
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Manicures feel like such a luxury mainly because they are purely decorative; they don't fulfill any sort of necessity and they're not particularly functional. But as Lucie Davis, a jewelry design student at Central St. Martins in London suggests, they very easily could be useful.
Especially if you're the type who's constantly misplacing your train card. For her final graduate project, Davis designed a set of acrylic nails that also doubles as an Oyster card, the plastic card with which Londoners pay for rides on the tube.
It's as simple as it is genius: Davis took the RFID microchip built in to the Oyster card and embedded it into a full set of acrylic nails. The card reader on the turnstile picks up the chip just as it would in a plastic card.
Instead of fishing through a purse or pulling out a wallet, Davis taps her nails onto the card reader and walks on through.
Especially if you're the type who's constantly misplacing your train card. For her final graduate project, Davis designed a set of acrylic nails that also doubles as an Oyster card, the plastic card with which Londoners pay for rides on the tube.
It's as simple as it is genius: Davis took the RFID microchip built in to the Oyster card and embedded it into a full set of acrylic nails. The card reader on the turnstile picks up the chip just as it would in a plastic card.
Instead of fishing through a purse or pulling out a wallet, Davis taps her nails onto the card reader and walks on through.
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