Visa cooks up payment sunglasses because seeing is paying

I wear my sunglasses at night so I can pay...

We know, those aren't the exact words to Corey Hart's classic ear worm, but they fit perfectly with Visa's latest mobile payment pilot: Payment Sunglasses.

Announced at SXSW in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, but deployed down under at the World Surf League Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast competition in Australia on Tuesday, Visa's wearable prototype puts mobile payment capabilities on your face.

Fifty lucky Visa partners and influencers were handed the Visa payment sunglasses, which are just Ray Bans with a built-in NFC chip (there's no official partnership with Visa), connected to a re-loadable, pre-paid card. The prototypes can be used on virtually any contactless payment reader. Read more...