Poken: 8 Tech Trends for 2010
Some of the most innovative, interesting, and, well, strange tech has nothing to do with computing monoliths like Google or Microsoft. And it’s just around the corner.
Here’s our list of the tech trends, products, and innovations that are available today — or coming online shortly — and how they’ll affect your life next year.
6. You’ll burn your business cards
Salespeople hand them out at trade shows and they might help you win a free lunch. That’s right: business cards just won’t die. Several iPhone apps – such as Beezcard and SnapDat – allow you to share contact details, but not everyone has an iPhone. A Swiss company has made the PokenZoo, a cute, inexpensive device you touch to another Poken to swap contacts.
Why the trend is important: Saves paper, but also finally alleviates business workers from having to carry these annoying cards around whether they go.
Souce: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570493,00.html?test=faces
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Only problem I have with the poken is it’s appearance. Why not design something that looks classy and business like? Instead that device looks like some Japanese Animation for kids. Or an “I love kiddy” creation.
I know it might seem a bit nit picky but I know plenty of adults that would quickly scan over this device and not investigate further then the appearance.
I see no other reason why this device couldn’t revolutionize the info exchange market but c’mon, let’s make it look a little more professional…
AO:
That is why they developed their first generation POKEN Pulse
http://www.doyoupoken.com/web/guest/pulse
The reason they use the cartoonish characters is that the early adopters for most social media are tweens/teens.
IC
The Poken Pulse definitely has more appeal for business use. (Not to mention an integrated 2GB flash drive.)
Although the Spark looks a bit like it is for kids, it is definitely a conversation starter if you have it on your keyring…