Meet rCard, The World's First Electronic Business Card

Business cards are a very important accessory for just about any employee with an executive position in a certain company, but, unfortunately, the concept on which they're based has changed very little over the past decades. However, it would seem that business cards are also about to step into the electronic era, as a company called CEO IQ has just announced the release of the rCard, a portable device that can easily take care of a person's contacts.

According to the company, the rCard, unlike flash drives and business card CD-ROMs, is a complete interactive information vehicle that doesn't require a computer to access (or technological skills to use, for that matter). Furthermore, the rCard case can be customized to reflect any company brand, including logo, color, tag line, and comes with a USB cord to charge the battery off any computer.

"Jump Lab focuses on apprising CEO IQ's members of the latest field intelligence on emerging services, products and business owners", said Jet Parker, founder and Chief Visionary Officer of CEO IQ, the exclusive distributor of the rCard. "The rCard is about as exciting as it gets. It is a great vehicle for storing and transporting business building slide shows for any industry."

The rCard sports a 2-inch display, for showing hi-resolution photos, text, variable-speed slide shows and graphics, as well as built-in navigation buttons to scroll through screen images. Furthermore, the device features just about enough internal flash memory to store up to 50 individual frames of data space, which can be accessed via the USB 2.0 interface.

The device is powered by a wafer-thin, rechargeable (via USB) Li-Poly DLP battery, which can provide around 2 hours of continuous functioning time. Furthermore, as expected, the rCard is extremely portable, measuring around 88.9 mm x 50.8 mm x 4.3 mm, which means that it can easily fit into a wallet.

"The rCard equips corporations with sophisticated yet simple methods for running consumer contests, showcasing new services, demonstrating new products, promoting trade shows and mobilizing proprietary information. A magnification stripe version is also available for retailers", Parker added. "It is the digital rainmaking tool of the decade."

It remains to be seen whether the rather optimistic statements of CEO IQ's founder will actually come true at some point, but the truth of the matter is that the price will be a decisive factor, and at 40 US dollars, the rCard might have quite a high rate of adoption, considering the level of versatility it can provide.

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