# Proximity payments

> Two early 2010 proximity-payment demos: the new PayPal iPhone app, which seems to use the Bump API to match up two physical gestures, and Square’s just-announced payment app for the iPad.

- Page: https://www.elasticspace.com/2010/04/proximity-payments/
- Author: Timo Arnall (https://www.elasticspace.com/)
- Section: Notes (https://www.elasticspace.com/notes/)
- Published: 2010-04-06
- Updated: 2026-07-04
- Tags: Gestural Interaction, Mobile, Payment, Proximity, Video
- Site map for agents: https://www.elasticspace.com/llms.txt

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Video: [Bump Pay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTZ0WmwahM)

[YouTube – The new PayPal iPhone app](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTZ0WmwahM) seems to use the [Bump API](http://bu.mp/) to match up two physical gestures and make a payment. (I even like their tacky faux-anthropology video).

Video: [Demo - Square Card Reader from Squareup.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCMdtfnpolg)

And [Square](https://squareup.com/) has [just announced](http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/03/square-launches-on-ipad/) their payment app for the iPad.