Do you carry a dozen of loyalty cards or more every day? There’s always a great chance that you could easily lose those loyalty cards. Cupertino-based Mobeam capitalized by creating the Nümi Key. Nümi key chain is gadget that includes a patented LED system, which “beams” the loyalty card information into a checkout scanner in a readable format. This gadget holds about 50 different barcodes – pointing the device at the barcode scanner, and pressing the red button in the center, given that the store uses a laser checkout scanner. This is available at amazon.com at $34.95. To add loyalty cards to the device, the Nümi Key is connected by USB to a Windows computer, and the user surfs to myloyaltycards.com, in which from there, the user chooses the retailer and enters the membership card number. The service supports about 55 retailers as of now. But the only downside of Nümi is it’s only for Windows users. This is because to the configuration website using ActiveX and Interner Explorer in order to hook up to the device. But Mobeam says there will be a version for Mac sooner or later.
