Coin is up for pre-order today for $50, but will cost $100 for new buyers when it ships in summer 2014. Two years ago, Coin CEO Kanishk Parashar was working on SmartMarket, an app that let you pay ...

The Compact Coin wallet isn’t cheap at $80, and it certainly isn’t ideal for everyone. It does a mediocre job of carrying coins, and you can’t stuff dozens of hundred-dollar bills inside it.

Google Wallet and iOS’s Passbook have helped reduce the number of loyalty, debit, and credit cards we need to carry around every day. But they haven’t eliminated them altogether.

Coin is a beautiful dream, one techno card that voltrons all the plastic in your pocket into a single slim square. Getting to market is hard though; Coin just got delayed until the spring of 2015 ...

When Coin released the first video of its über credit card, the response was enormous. After 40 minutes, even though it was still just a prototype, 1,000 people had evidently forked over $50 for ...

To use a different card, instead of fumbling through your wallet, you flip through photos of all your cards on the Coin iPhone app. The card syncs with the app via Bluetooth.

Available now for pre-order, Coin looks and acts like any of the cards in your wallet, but aims to condense that pile of plastic into one device.

In Mobile Wallets Should Fix What’s Broken – And It Ain’t Payments, I'd highlighted why paying by plastic card is natural and how mobile wallets are really not offering any compelling reason ...

Available now for pre-order, Coin looks and acts like any of the cards in your wallet, but aims to condense that pile of plastic into one device. Coin channels virtual wallets like Google Wallet ...