Visitors to fast food outlets in Japan will soon be able to pay for their burgers with their mobile phones.
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with McDonalds to offer electronic payments and special promotions for mobile users.
Could this be the first step in a whole host of "mobile extensions" that will allow cell phones to act like portable credit card machines, control multimedia devices, unlock and start automobiles and a million other "point and shoot" applications? We'll have to wait and see...