MARSEILLE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--French start-up Think&Go will debut on January 2016 the world’s first multi-payment connected screens at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Following the presentation of the companies connected screens at last year’s CES fair, Think&Go has partnered with fellow French brand Ingenico, a leading payment solutions firm to create connected screens that integrate contactless payment.
This innovation transforms a screen into a true multi-merchant point of sales terminal opening up new sales and distribution channels in the streets, train stations, Metro stations, Airports, shopping malls…. . Consumers will be able to buy or reserve a product (concert tickets, Fashion items, recharge their transport tickets…), directly on the screen, with a simple gesture in less than one second using their NFC mobile phones or contactless bank card and without downloading an application.
The revolutionary payment method also works with Apple Pay enabled devices like the iPhone 6 or the Apple Watch.
“The need to be able to engage consumers via digital screen images is becoming stronger. In fact over the last 20 years the traditional screens usage has not greatly evolved: they show higher definition images but the screens remain passive with little or no consumer interaction. With the first connected screens we introduced a first breakthrough technology which radically changed and simplified the consumer’s experience. With the new generation of screens integrating contactless payment, we enter into a new dimension: Commerce on the screen (#SCREENCOMMERCE)” . Stated Vincent Berge, CEO and Founder of Think&Go , “ Payment on the screen adds a 3rd sales channel following, Mobile and the Internet, which will radically change consumers impulse buying habits: it will revolutionize commerce and e-commerce” he added.
Who will be the 1st American to pay on a connected screen?
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Think&Go team plans to bring a screen to the Apple headquarters in
Cupertino to propose to Tim Cook –Apple CEO- to become the first
American to make a charity donation by paying via a connected screen
with his Apple Pay ® enabled Iphone.
You can follow the US Think&Go adventure via Twitter #HeyTimYouCanDonateToo on @thinkandgoNFC.
CES Presentation Video : https://vimeo.com/148032072
Created in 2010, Think&Go has already sold over 150 connected screens around the world and plans to distribute its multi-payment connected screens during the course of 2016.