Nice to Meat You

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On the one hand I’m full. On the other, I just lost an important new business contact’s info.

That’s because, hypothetically, he or she gave me a “meat card” — a business card made of beef jerky and engraved by a laser — and I ate it on the plane home.

At the risk of providing free advertising, let me say Meat Cards is an awesome idea. You can follow their progress as they bring this product to market on Twitter. And you can check out some other innovative business cards over at Trend Central, where I saw this story.

It seems the me the idea is genius in at least three ways: 1) it’s totally viral, after all, here I am blogging about it; 2) it forces people to input your contact info into their computers, otherwise they can’t eat the delicious beef jerky; and 3) you associate your name or product in the recipient’s brain with a “reward” of highly desirable nutritional intake.

Of course, all of this could be offset by the problem that you look like a weirdo. So, it’s context dependent. Good for: novelty gift company. Bad for: Supreme Court nominee.

Still, in Internet parlance: They’re made of meat and lasers and win.