We have seen tons of different memory card readers here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one from the guys over at Elecom, looks like it might be one of the most useful we have seen, the Elecom Magnetic ...

The reader includes a new slot where merchants can "dip" an EMV-compatible card, leaving it in place for the entire sale. The new secure method replaces the legacy, traditional method of swiping a ...

Storing information through magnetic patterns was first demonstrated to record audio. Since then, this concept has been applied for different products like floppy disks, audio/video tapes, hard disks, ...

[nevdull] found himself in possession of a magnetic card reader. What else was he to do but show us all how to read from it using an AVR? He goes through the basics of how the card reader works, as ...

Security researchers are eager to poke holes in the chip-embedded credit and debit cards that have arrived in Americans’ mailboxes over the last year and a half. Although the cards have been in use ...

[ned]’s HandySwipe is a portable magnetic card reader. It runs on 4 AA batteries and collects data from track 2 cards. It uses a PIC 16F688 and displays the card’s data on a small LCD. It can store up ...