Wave Cash App’s Magic Wand to Pay for Stuff
Key takeaways
- Cash App, the digital payments service operated by Block, has offered its users the ability to use free physical cards since 2017.
- The wand is a whimsical way to introduce Cash App Tags, the company’s new hardware product.
- Courtesy of Cash AppMaking a statement about your payments seems to be the point here.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Courtesy of Cash App Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Have you ever wanted to wave a magic wand at something and make it yours? Well, now you can, so long as you have enough money in your debit account to pay for it.
Cash App, the digital payments service operated by Block, has offered its users the ability to use free physical cards since 2017. Now, anyone with a Cash App card can pay $25 to turn that card into a pearlescent, sparkly magic wand. Anywhere you can use tap-to-pay with your phone or card, you’ll be able to buy something with a tap of the wand instead.
The wand is a whimsical way to introduce Cash App Tags, the company’s new hardware product. Tags are NFC-enabled physical devices that will eventually come in an array of shapes and sizes. They don’t have to connect via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. To link one to a Cash App account, you can just hold the device to the back of a phone, and it will link the wand to the account. (You’ll need to register a Cash App card first.) Then, the wand works like a debit card. Albeit a much more fanciful one that can be clipped to a keychain like a charm bracelet.