The ATM Gets a Surface Treatment

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Point-of-sale behemoth National Cash Register, now known as NCR, is looking beyond it's humble origins as a cash register manufacturer, showing off working prototypes of new technologies that could entirely reshape the consumer experience. Check out this demonstration of a system that utilizes Microsoft's Surface, a cell phone with Near Field Communications technology, and a cash dispenser that takes design cues from the Xbox 360.

Also take a peek at a system that puts your cellphone at the center of hospitality: booking your hotel room with a brush across a kiosk, acting as a surrogate currency and even getting coded as your room key.