why do I have to carry around an extra gadget? isn't there some way to do this in my phone?
sort of but not really. since the beginning of mobile phones and PDAs there have been myriad proposed solutions to easy sharing of contact information or "replacing the business card." to show our age, several members of the Poken's staff fondly remember beaming vCards in infrared between our Palm Pilots back in the day. however, nothing has ever emerged as a standard for a couple of reasons. the first inhibitor has been hardware/OS/application fragmentation--basically different phones often can't talk well with others. recently there have been more and more hardware/OS/application-independent phone solutions for contact exchange via BlueTooth or visual codes. however, these also have not really caught on. we believe that it is because the user interfaces too unwieldy, requiring the user to type in codes, launch applications, etc.
our solution is meant to address these issues by providing an extremely simply mechanism for contact exchange: the high-four. it is natural and it mimics the way we interact with other humans every day. the security is built into the hardware so there are no codes to enter and no risk of someone stealing your information. it requires a small, extra hardware device to carry around so we've designed that device to be cool and fun--something we hope you would like to carry around with you anyway. perhaps we're tilting at windmills by trying to create a social replacement for the business card, but we really think we're on to something!