Thanks all for the suggestions and hints.
The ACS equipment looks good, thier SDK package looks alright despite the lack of native windows support. I'll also take a look at the ASUS options too.
If anyone else has any suggestions please let me know!

While I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my rings I wanted to ensure I have something to do with them when they arrive.
Without any phones to tinker with I am looking at a PC based nfc reader/writer but am finding a lot of different options. I see a few in the community have arduino add on boards they are happy with but as one of the rings will be a gift for a less tech savvy family member I wanted to see if anyone has recommendations for a USB windows PC compatible reader/writer?
Ideally it would come with relevant software or use some of the open source packages I've seen, the main usage would be for them to clone other tags/rings and copy the functionality to their ring (Data and UID modifications).
Does anyone have any experiences with these? Any links to purchase online would be great.
Thanks!