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Major event will utilize wearable technology to allow people to pay for goods

Lullapalooza 2014 will be supporting mobile payments through the use of wearable technologies. The event’s organizer has announced that those attending the festival in August will be able to use high-tech wristbands to make transactions. This represents one of the largest events in which mobile payments and wearable technology are combined. While wristbands with imbedded RFID chips are not something new to mainstream events like Lullapalooza, they are most typically used to grant people access to particular areas and not for mobile payments.

RFID-equipped wristbands will make mobile purchases possible

Plastic wristbands equipped with RFID chips are to be used to the festival. Once a visitor enters the festival grounds, they will be able to use these wristbands as a way to pay for goods at the various stalls at the event. These wristbands can also be used at the events bars and payments are made through the use of mobile terminals that are capable of reading the wristband’s RFID chip.

Festival goers need to upload their financial details to the Lullapalooza website before they can use their wristbands

Before the wristbands can be used, festival goers will have to upload their financial information into the Lullapalooza website. Once this has been accomplished, the wristbands will be sent out before the beginning of the festival. The wristbands will not only accommodate mobile payments, of course, and will function as a way to monitor festival entry as well. This is one of the more common uses for such wristbands and RFID chips are typically used to admittance more so than for mobile transactions.

Wristbands could make paying for goods at the festival safer and easier

Mobile payments have become quite popular in a variety of sectors, but they are new to prominent events like Lullapalooza. Making transactions easier for festival goers is one of the reasons the event has opted to use its new wristbands. The wristbands also remove the need for people to carry around physical currency, which could cut down on the instances of theft that occur at the festival.

Customer distraction from mobile devices has made its way onto public dinner tables.

It doesn’t come as any surprise that technology news reports are determining that smartphone users are increasingly distracted during a growing range of different activities, which include walking down the street, driving, and even at concerts and movies that are supposed to be entertaining on their own.

However, a new study has found that this distraction is now taking away from restaurant service.

Restaurants and their staffs are now finding that their jobs are becoming just that much more challenging as people use their smartphones while they’re at the table, taking longer to progress through their meals. Whether they are taking a call, answering a text, checking emails, or photographing their plates, the use of these devices is extremely common, it is becoming more prevalent, and technology news is now showing that it is slowing down service.

A well established restaurant is now making technology news for having conducted a study on the matter.

The restaurant, located in New York City, received several complaints about having experienced slow service. In response, it decided to investigate the matter and looked into its surveillance videos to observe customer behavior trends. It examined forty five different transactions from 2004 that were located at tables between the diners and the front of house staff. Then another forty five equivalent 2014 transactions were observed.

What they discovered was that it was actually the customers, not the staff, that were to blame for the slow-downs in service, and that it was primarily the diners with cell phones that were behind the issue.

The restaurant, which published its technology news findings but that remained anonymous, initially posted its discoveries on the “Rants & Raves” section of Craigslist for Manhattan. Since then, the study has been removed, but it was available long enough for a broad number of people to have a good look at what its comparison revealed.

The technology news making study showed that diners in 2014 required an average of 13 more minutes to order their meals than they did back in 2004. The observations of the surveillance video showed that today’s diners spent much of their time using their smartphones at the table, then spent another three minutes photographing their food once it arrived. Among those who took photographs, nine had to have their food sent back to the kitchen to have it reheat it because it had gone cold during the time it took to photograph it.