So, what is a Poken, really? I mean: how do they work?
Well, here are the two versions I know:

The left one is the Poken that was inside my Lift09 badge. It doesn’t look like a production model and the date on the edge says “02.02.2009″. The “cute” Pokens have a very different layout. If you [...]

So I was at the Lift Conference about a week ago. Aside from being one of the most amazing conferences in Europe, they had a fancy new feature embedded in their badges:

See the lash on the bottom left? Inside is a Poken, a small gadget that allows you to share your personal data with other [...]