Thanks for the reply and the heads-up on laserbits... they have all sorts of neat stuff!

This is really cool!

I didn't realise you could buy cheap NFC tags :O That's awesome.

I love the woodwork too, it looks great!

Very cool

I think we are going to see a lot more of these type of things as bitcoins economy grows.

watching, really cool design. could be collectables in the future.
and USD bills are  scrap paper, lol.

Woah nice work TBZ! You have to tip me now though, right? 

The NFC tag has a public address encoded into a 'bitcoin:' URI. Someone with a Bitcoin client can zap it and their client will open to the 'Send Coins' page.

This way they can send a payment without having to scan the QR - it's way faster.

That's correct. I'm working on another version that may require some assembly by the end user, but will contain a private key inside known only to them.

The NFC tag is rewritable so someone could put their private key onto it but I wouldn't recommend it.

The wood shown is 1/8", it's possible to go thinner but the QR is a pretty fragile structure as it is. Some metal could work but I like the analog finish