- Final-year jewellery design student Lucie Davis, 22, came up with idea of RFID chip manicure
- Similar to an Oyster Card, if you lose the chip-embedded nail, you have to report and replace it
- Student believes other applications could be made for example in opening doors and making payments
A student at the Central St Martins art school in London, UK, that invented a manicure that works as an Oyster Card, says acrylic nails could be used to perform other tasks that require the use of hands.
I wanted to show that [nails] aren’t just simply a form of decoration but could act as part information too
Lucie Davis, 22, jewellery design student
Oyster Card Acrylic Nails arose out of a challenge the students were faced with to find ‘wonder in everyday life’. Final-year student Lucie Davis, 22, who is studying jewellery design, came up with the idea of using acrylic nails to help her travel on the TFL Underground network of trains.
The nail has an RFID chip embedded inside, which a commuter can use at a ticket barrier in exactly the same way as an Oyster Card. Like an Oyster Card, if you lose the nail, you have to replace it. Davis told Cosmetics Business: “If you lost it, you would just report it so that no-one else could use it and then you would essentially have to get a new one.”
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