Hands free BitCoin payments with Google Glass and Eaze: Just nod twice

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Don’t look now but there’s another mobile payment system on the way. It’s called Eaze and it combines two forward thinking technologies: BitCoin and Google Glass(s goog). Eaze debuted on Wednesday and is the brainchild of a small team that includes co-founder Raimo van der Klein, the former CEO of Layar, a company that created an augmented reality browser in 2009.

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So how does Eaze work? The client app runs on Google Glass and can read QR codes that have transactional information at the point of sale. Glass shows the details of the payment on its viewscreen and you simply nod twice to approve the transaction with payment made in BitCoins. Eaze users will have to deposit BitCoins in what the company calls a “deterministic wallet” which is unlocked with a passphrase locally. In this way, the BitCoins are never stored on the Eaze servers.

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