Visa tests contactless payment sunglasses (V)

BII This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Payments Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. At South By Southwest (SXSW), Visa unveiled a proof-of-concept for payment-enabled sunglasses, according to CNBC. To use them, customers would link payment information to the glasses, presumably through a prepaid product or some type of app or website, and then could simply remove them and tap the side to any NFC-enabled point-of-sale (POS) terminal. The sunglasses are...