 The Jazz Mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that even holds tablets up to 8 inches. Click now to learn more. NFC, for the uninitiated, stands for Near Field Communication and is a wireless radio communication standard that is designed for very close up and very power efficient transmission of small amounts of data. Innovative NFC readers are a popular feature on Android and Windows phone smartphones, and NFC tags can be found on anything from movie posters, to trigger a trailer to play on YouTube, to food packaging to direct you to the manufacturer's website for nutritional information and recipe suggestions. And as price continues to fall and the technology becomes more ubiquitous, I expect there will be all kinds of innovative uses for it that we can't even imagine right now. But you don't have to run around and find NFC tags that contain useful functionality, you can actually buy your own. Here is just such a device from Tagger. Tagger's Near Wave Type 1 NFC tags are like any NFC tag. They're made up of a couple of key components, including a very small amount of storage memory, a radio chip, and an antenna, all of which is passively powered, which means they draw power from the device reading them. That means you can put them almost anywhere. Unlike some other NFC tags, they're designed to be applied, unapplied, bent, creased, and all of that without invalidating your warranty. And they're covered on each side by a waterproof PVC, a protective layer with a frustratingly strong 3M adhesive on the backside that we learned the hard way should probably only be applied to surfaces that you don't ever want to remove your tag from. Luke went and stuck a couple of them together. Way to go, Luke. With that cautionary message in mind, you can stick them to almost anything. They do have some limitations though. We found that they only really work very close up, like almost touching. So make sure there's actually enough clearance for you to get your phone next to it. And they also don't work on metal surfaces unless you use an RF shield. They're a little bit on the big side at three and a half centimeters squared. But given that you have to get your phone in close to them, I guess that last one is a bit of a non-issue, which leads us into the big question here. Why would you want to buy your own NFC tags? What can they be used for? Well, with an app like Trigger, which we highly recommend, you can set them up to do all kinds of things. Here are some cool examples that we came up with. You can generate email shopping lists when you're out of stuff. You can save grandma the frustration of navigating menus on her phone to place calls to loved ones. You can set alarms at bedtime, create a digital business card, tap to enable Bluetooth and start music playback when you get in your car, then tap again and turn everything off when you leave. You can enable your Wi-Fi hotspots. You can just put one on your laptop, boom, ready to go. You can check in and out at home with a text message so your parents don't worry. You can mute and dim the screen for school mode or other custom phone modes that you set up for yourself. And you can even do things like create a silent alarm to call 911 if you think you're in danger and so much more. But you guys aren't interested in all of that stuff. You want to see whether you can use NFC to do an Easter egg hunt. So rather than hiding real Easter eggs, this is winner takes all. Whoever finds all eight Easter eggs back there will NFC tags and then uses NFC reader in order to, you know, bloop, go up against them wins this solid chocolate bunny. Best of luck. Best of luck. May the best man win. No. I think we all know it'll be me. Oh, that's why you don't want the best man to win. Yep. Because that's me. Yep. Well, I don't know whether to be, that's not very good trash talk. All right, let's do this thing., got it. Got it. Got it. All right. That's the last one. Last one. I got it. Where's the bunny? Do you know where Linus is? Hey, do you know where Linus is? You just came from this way. Do you know where Linus is? Where is he? Show me. Go. In the house. He's in here. Linus. Linus. Is he? Linus? Linus? What are you doing? What? Did you even find any of them? I don't want it now. How did you even manage to get that all over your face? So I guess I won and I wanted the chocolate bunny but I'm still going to classify this a win because I'm not that thing. So I guess now is a good time to thank Tagger NFC for sending us their excellent NFC tags that we used to make this fun little video about NFC. You can check them out online. We'll put a link in the video description so you can see where to get them. They're a Canadian company so we're Canadian too. We just like that kind of stuff. Not all Canadians are like this. Don't judge me. 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