Mobile Payments *slowly* gaining momentum. 2012 the year of mass acceptance?

If there is one thing people like, it is taking ten different objects and turning them into one multi-function power house.  For the digital minded, that is why we have smartphones.  Calendars, address books, web browsers, email, etc. are all at our finger tips meaning we don’t have to carry each one of the mentioned and unmentioned objects with us seperately.  Remember, there was a time when we did, but now with technology and mobile devices becoming so much more widespread, smaller, and more capable, it is almost hard to even remember back to that time, even though it was just a few short years ago.  Mobile payments have the ability to greatly shrink the size of our wallets and purses and make us overall lighter.  No longer will we have to fumble around with various pieces of plastic just to for our purchases, instead we’ll just wave our mobile device over a scanner of some sort and all will be taken care of.  Would you believe that technology has been around for years, hoever, the U.S. just might start seeing it in the near future. Excited?