VCard: Business Card Redux

The vCard is supposedly a business card for the 21st Century. You load up your information in video and audio form and then pass them out like cheap promotional pens. The problem is, they’re not cheap promotional pens. There’s no way a self-contained multimedia player can hope to cost anything near a regular dead-tree business […]

vcard.pngThe vCard is supposedly a business card for the 21st Century. You load up your information in video and audio form and then pass them out like cheap promotional pens. The problem is, they're not cheap promotional pens. There's no way a self-contained multimedia player can hope to cost anything near a regular dead-tree business card, which is probably why there is no price list on the site. It has a "super high-resolution 2.7" video screen, stereo speakers (which are "acoustic"!) and "super powered lithium batteries". Does anyone else detect the whiff of vaporware?

So we shall assume that this thing is completely impractical and instead focus on the amusing uses the maker suggests for it. Sure, an auto dealer handing you one of these to make you fall in love with a car is unlikely enough, but our favorite is:

The Dating Game

The perfect tool to introduce yourself to someone you want to date and/or ask out. Break through the barrier of awkwardness and first introductions with the vCard.

It's like Hot or Not, right there in your hand.

Product page [vCard Systems via Book of Joe]