Comments on: Poken: Tiny RFID thingies that share all your personal data with others

By: Ilya A. Pashkov

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:01:32 +0000

I want to poke somebody 8)

By: rfidsusan

rfidsusan — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:09:52 +0000

2009 China International RFID Technologies and Applications Show
Date:June 24-26
Venu: Shenzhen Convention Center, Hall 3, China
http://www.rfidexpo.com.cn/eng

By: DaChieftain

DaChieftain — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:17:48 +0000

This Poken is actually brilliant. What I really like is the simplicity of the idea, and the fact that ISN’T tied to a cellphone. It is a cheap and nasty dongle that hooks onto your keychain and does one very simple task brilliantly: it swaps codes with other Pokens. That is all it does. All of the “smarts” happen online — where they belong. Who could resist? I hope the day never comes when this functionality is built into cellphones or other multipurpose devices. Follow the KISS principle instead.

By: Zavier

Zavier — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:45:50 +0000

Just letting you guys know that poken is coming out in Australia soon. This website is taking some pre-orders:

http://www.ozgadgets.com.au/fun-gadgets/poken

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:56:39 +0000

I bought one on http://www.pokenrage.com, also delivers in UK. Nice gadget!!!!!

By: hellomynameisE

hellomynameisE — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:07:44 +0000

There is also Hellomynamesie, which seem to have a very cool design not like Poken

By: Poken is the talk of South By Southwest conference! « Do You Poken?

Poken is the talk of South By Southwest conference! « Do You Poken? — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:54:15 +0000

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By: Nicolas Dengler

Nicolas Dengler — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:41:12 +0000

Even if the design can look childish, poken is a lot more than this. It is very interesting in conferences context. As an example we had a poken (the technology, not the design) directly integrated in our plastic card holder at the liftconference.com this year 3 weeks ago in Geneva. This was a common effort of Amiando, the ticket seller and poken themselves.

So when you meet other people you can simply touch your plastic card holder and you’re then connected to the other person, really simple.

Picture of the plastic card holder:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifeedyou/3325387470/sizes/l/

By: TG

TG — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:36:10 +0000

These chips will be in millions of Nokias over the next 2/3 years.

Bluetooth wont work for business cards as every phone maker has different file types. Its try sending a bookmark from a Samsung to a LG mobile. Does’nt work. Until a standard is made for this (which I doubt) its going to be a long road

However this works for transactions

By: texxs

texxs — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:05:15 +0000

Great for identity thieves and child molesters.

By: texxs

texxs — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:03:17 +0000

holy crap!

Kep this thing away from my daughter!

What were they thinking? this thing is a privacy nightmare.
And it’s obviously geared toward kids!

I thought the Brits were kind to their citizens, at least kinder than the US is. Something like this should NOT be legal for kids.

By: AT

AT — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:42:18 +0000

such a product is already out there:

http://mingle360.com/

By: TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder

TECHNOLOGY « Daily Marauder — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:14:49 +0000

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By: john

john — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:44:17 +0000

@ Engago Team

I don’t think this has anything to do with “where the product/device was invented”

Most people don’t want to have in their pocket a USB stick (actually can it even be used as one?) that looks like a bad pokemon copy.

I don’t know the people behind the venture and if they did get any funding however the success of their business seems to rely too much on a coin flip (will their market segment – 8 to12 years old – adopt the design of the Pokens?).

Other better services will be out there sooner than later.

By: keyboards

keyboards — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:41:00 +0000

Cool concept. However, it won’t fly as a stand-alone device…….that’s the last thing people need…..gotta be bundled in a phone.

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By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:29:33 +0000

Chris, Fcuk off and rant somewhere else you twunt.

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Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:40:06 +0000

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By: Engago Team

Engago Team — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:08:17 +0000

Wondering if the Poken would have been ‘invented’ in US (bay area) how much in favor the comments would have been.
In The Netherlands poken reached mass market adoption.

By: Brajeshwar

Brajeshwar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:10:55 +0000

Wow, this is another sweet thing. Looks a bit like a simpler version of SifTables http://siftables.com/

SiftTables, as they promise, will be extendable and programmable which is sounds very interesting.