Ask the brassy Stanford CS department about Clinkle, the student project that's taken $25 million in venture capital and produced nothing but a video, and they'll tell you they hate it. They hate it enough, apparently, to show the world what it looks like:

The following was sent to us via a tipster who claims it originates from within Stanford, where Clinkle got its dubious start. It looks exactly like what we were told it was earlier: another way to buy shit with your phone. If you like looking at virtual wallet screenshots, you may feast here.

Is this really what the app's hugely high-profile backers had in mind?