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Re: SwivelCard uses regular paper and has a USB drive embedded

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Post by cix »

LukeB_UK wrote: post #9

Your website is broken on my nexus 4. Parts of the content are overlapping and the video is half covered. Edit: Not to mention the top menu taking up a load of screen space.

It seems to be using a responsive site with issues of a overlay. The logo is also not flush with the mobile header. Should use a PNG logo with a transparent background, using a white background for your logo is causing that.

Re: SwivelCard uses regular paper and has a USB drive embedded

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Post by Someone »

"Are there privacy issues since the cards use analytics and tracking? No, swivelCard uses the same sort of analytics and tracking that you would encounter with virtually any website."

I would replace that "No" by a "Yes". Also, educate me: does "virtually any website" do tracking?

Re: SwivelCard uses regular paper and has a USB drive embedded

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Post by abritishguy »

cix wrote: post #8
cix wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK I see you indicated it is using NFC. But all the iPhone models from what I know of don't even have NFC, let alone instant response from their proximity.

Corrected myself yet again, it seems you are not using a iPhone in the demo. I haven't ever used a Android with NFC before, does it really react instantly when certain proximity with a NFC chip as shown?

Yes

Re: SwivelCard uses regular paper and has a USB drive embedded

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Post by eli »

cix wrote: post #8
cix wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK I see you indicated it is using NFC. But all the iPhone models from what I know of don't even have NFC, let alone instant response from their proximity.

Corrected myself yet again, it seems you are not using a iPhone in the demo. I haven't ever used a Android with NFC before, does it really react instantly when certain proximity with a NFC chip as shown?

Yes, Android has a service that's always listening for NFC and can pass it off to an app... if NFC is enabled. On my phone it was disabled by default.

Re: SwivelCard uses regular paper and has a USB drive embedded

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Post by egypturnash »

These guys need to re-record this video several times until it's not painfully obvious that he's reading off a script. There's no emotion in his delivery at all; he sounds super bored.

This also seems like a solution desperately looking for a problem to solve.

Re: SwivelCard uses regular paper and has a USB drive embedded

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Post by eli »

cix wrote: post #10
cix wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK I see you indicated it is using NFC. But all the iPhone models from what I know of don't even have NFC, let alone instant response from their proximity.

Also what type of cost will be associated with these type of NFC chips, I can't assume a mass production of these would be inexpensive with those chips. Wouldn't just keeping the USB with the printed metallic ink and a QR code be more economical for mass production? Or will you have two separate models perhaps?

I've seen NFC stickers retail for around $0.50 each.

Re: SwivelCard uses regular paper and has a USB drive embedded

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Post by apendleton »

There probably was some point at which technologists still exchanged physical business cards but wanted people to access their digital content, but I get the sense that the physical card is decidedly on the way out, in favor of people directly connecting on Twitter or Github. It seems like, at least in the tech sector, the period when this would have been useful is already over.

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Post by K2h »

I have been following intelliPaper [1] for a few years now ever ever since a close friend quit his job to go hack on this full time with a small team bringing the technology to market with manufacturing in the USA. It really is a cool story about what goes into the product they have today [2] and some of the challenges the company has gone through to get where they are, including having to survive a flood in manufacturing! [3]. For all those of you that work in manufacturing you know first hand the challenges that goes into ramping up production to more than 500,000 units a month [4]. Drop a quick note to the CEO Andrew DePaula and give him support[5], little words of encouragement mean alot to all of us pursuing our passion - and these guys are! I wish intelliPaper the best.

Update: There is little publicly available information about what is inside intellipaper. There is a small note from cypress [6] that enCoRe V USB microcontroller might be used. They should bring out an additional contact and make the 10-bit ADC accessible! I'd put a little DMM app in my business card, or add a long wire and do a SDR radio. now that would be cool.

[1] https://www.intellipaper.info/

[2] https://www.intellipaper.info/technology/

[3] http://www.krem.com/news/Edwall-businesses-clean-up--2460786...

[4] http://www.spokanejournal.com/local-news/intellipaper-ramps-...

[5] https://twitter.com/intelliPaper

[6] http://www.cypress.com/?rID=94593

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