$NXTD - Consumers Embrace Mobile Payment Devices that Offer Secure Ways for Making Purchases - NASDAQ Company's Newest Smart Wallet Featured on Fox News

CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, - (http://www.financialnewsmedia.com News Alert) - Mobile and digital payment systems continue to rise in popularity while the use of cash continues to decline with 59 percent of the 1,400 US consumers surveyed carrying less than $20 in their pocket. Retailers look to offer flexibility in the payment methods they accept as mobile payment applications are used most often for social events, retail shopping, restaurants and bars. Mobile Pay Companies in focus today are: NXT-ID, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTD), Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA)



NXT-ID (NASDAQ: NXTD) Featured on Fox News Segment, \"The Next Great Thing\" After Announcing First Shipment of Wocket Smart Wallets to Early Access Pre-Order Customers - NXTD announces its biometric payment technology, the Wocket smart wallet was featured in a news clip that aired this week on Washington DC\'s Fox 5 News (http://www.myfoxdc.com/). In a segment \"The Next Great Thing\", host Laura Evans calls the Wocket smart wallet \'a new way to pay\' and \'a really big breakthrough in mobile payment.\' Read the full NXTD Announcements at http://www.financialnewsmedia.com/profiles/nxtd.html



Award-winning journalist Laura Evans has been part of the FOX 5 News Team since 1999. She introduces the Wocket telling the audience that with over 13 million cases of identity theft annually and almost half of them due to a stolen or lost wallet, \"Now there is a device that could take the pain and hassle out of that forever.\"



She goes on to say, \"The Wocket is a convenient and universal form of payment that secures your personal information and that\'s why we think the Wocket is the next great thing.\" CEO, Gino Pereira discusses and demonstrates how the Wocket works as your own personal vault, storing all your personal information securely.



Laura also shares her enthusiasm on two other innovative tech products on the segment; VFit, a new way to measure fitness and the Bolt Smart Lightbulb. Laura Evans notes in closing that both the Wocket and Bolt created a lot of buzz at the Consumer Electronics (CES) show held in January...