Your mobile phone, acting as a store of your credit card data, sends it wirelessly to a nearby receiver, which could be another phone, a dedicated terminal, or a payments module embedded in, say, a vending machine.

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For the first time in a Nikon HD-SLR, users have the ability to record stereo sound through the internal microphone or attach an optional external microphone, such as Nikon's ME-1, through the dedicated microphone terminal.

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Participation in the scheme is free and enrolment only takes a few minutes at the two dedicated miSense check-in kiosks set up in the terminal for both Cathay Pacific and Emirates passengers.

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