THE FUTURE IS NOW … AND I’M UNDERWHELMED

A friend of mine who works in Silicon Valley at a place called Lepidium Technologies International (LTI) has let me know, in no uncertain terms, that the newest thing coming down the pike in 2012 will be VEBIC’s, or Visually Enhanced Business Information Cards. This nifty new piece of technology will altogether replace the traditional card stock business card that invariably get lost or crushed in the pandemonium of one’s purse.

The idea is that when professionals exchange information an application on their smart phone or tablet will mutually draw files (MDF) in any of the current media formats (jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, ppt, odt, pptx, docx, pps, ppsx, xls, xlsx.) containing an enhanced presentation of one’s bona fides.

As a favor to me (we dated briefly in college and this shy, diffident geek is always trying to do me favors), he gave me access to an early prototype of the app and together produced the following video business card.

What do you think?