Pretty soon every Poken user asks the same question: “Aliens and bees are nice but what about a Poken that I can use in a business environment?” Rumors started pretty quick about a new business edition that would be presented in mid 2009. Well, here we are and no business Poken in sight, right?
I was [...]

The Velvet Society Blog has some nice close ups of the Poken hardware with some explainations of what looms inside the small contact creatures.

Poken hardware explained
Poken hardware explained 2

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 [...]