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Meet the microchip mani: beauty tech that turns nails into business cards

By Rebecca Hitchon | 26 December 2024

You may have seen articles about microchip or NFC nails and wondered what in the Black Mirror is going on. Let’s go back to basics – what is NFC? This is an acronym for near-field communication: a technology that allows the exchange of small amounts of data between two electronic…

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