Poken Badge

An upcoming Poken product, the Poken Conference Badge. The Poken is in an easy way attached to the Badge. Share your profile directly with this badge and keep your contacts stored after the event in one place.

 

What is a Poken?

A Poken is a plastic creature that exchanges social networking details via RFID. After meeting and greeting in the real world, users who want to connect online can whip out their poken keyrings and 'high five' them. Details are transferred between the RFID chips, ready to be uploaded to a user's profile when the poken is plugged into a USB port.

The data is transferred to a personal poken database, which isn't yet another social network. Instead, it gathers and distributes details of new-found friends to existing networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Since users might want to connect with someone without immediately sharing their entire social identity, they can switch to 'ghost mode' by clicking a button on the poken. This allows them to reveal a limited amount of personal details before making a full connection online. Each poken can store up to 64 new contacts and warns its owners when it's nearly full.