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The cardboard business card has been with us just 200 years, a period of unprecedented change in society and scientific knowledge. This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle.

For chronically forgetful folk who are always losing their keys or wallet, it’s not hard to find trackers that beep and buzz to help locate them. Sydney startup HButler claims its new Orbit Card is the world’s thinnest Bluetooth tracker, and New Atlas went hands on to test its tracking prowess.

The Swyp Card promises to condense your wallet into a single metal card that stores info from debit, credit, loyalty and gift cards.

Plastc Card is a new electronic card-format device, that can store the information for up to 20 other cards on it at once. You just select the card that you want to access via the e-ink screen, then use Plastc as if it were that card.

Most of us still carry around a wallet full of plastic cards that we routinely have to rifle through. That's why the Coin was invented. It's a single card-shaped device, on which all your other cards can be stored and accessed electronically.

As technology progresses, we're seeing more and more tangible objects being replaced by digital alternatives. The fact is, though, people still like getting "stuff." Postcard on the Run builds on that idea, allowing users to create and mail their own custom physical postcards, from anywhere.

Sharetapes is a new Australian company that is attempting to recapture the age of the physical mixtape by launching a line of NFC and QR enabled mixtape cards.

UK-based business card manufacturer Moo has unveiled its new NFC-equipped business cards.

Lexar Media has confirmed that its 128GB 133x Professional SDXC media card, announced in January, is now shipping.

The Credit Card Holder holds six cards that can be extracted using the device’s buttons, which feature symbols to identify the respective cards.

Queen's University's Human Media Lab has unveiled a board game where images are projected onto the cards.

The proliferation of credit cards as a payment method preferred by millions of consumers has led to the creation of Square – a credit card reader device that makes any mobile phone a cash register.