Fliike - A Physical Facebook 'Like' Counter For Businesses

Posted: 7/05/2013

Imagine you're walking down the street, checking out the local brands in your city and while you're looking at their offices/shops, thinking about their popularity and that's when you see a small instrument lying inside. It has the Facebook 'Like' sign and numbers, that are changing from time to time and when you look closely at it you realize that it's showing the number of 'Likes' that that particular brand has on Facebook. Sounds interesting, right?

More interesting is the fact that this is not a figment of my imagination but there's actually a product that lets local businesses proudly flaunt their number of 'Likes' on Facebook, called Fliike.

Designed by a French start-up called Smiirl, Fliike is the first physical Facebook 'Like' counter made to bridge the gap between both the digital and the physical worlds.

According to its website, "Fliike is the first connected object that displays the number of Facebook fans. We designed it for business owners to enable them to proudly display their popularity in the digital community. By making the digital & social proof a tangible subject, Fliike acts as a drive-to-store: don’t you feel like going into a place bubbling with people rather than an empty but pretty place? As a satisfied customer is a potential future Facebook fan, Fliike acts also as a drive-to-social: for the first time, owners and managers have a tool which facilitates the growth of the number of their fans."

Fliike is an easy to use product. All that you have to do is to plug it in, connect it to your Facebook page via WiFi and let it do its work from there - keeps track of all the 'Likes' that your business page receives.

According to Smiirl co-founder and CEO Gauthier Nadaud, "Screens are everywhere, that’s why we provide a simple design using mechanical interactions, thus giving [the] Internet some tangible aspect". He further also explains that it's difficult to convert a satisfied client into a Facebook fan but seeing the 'Like' counts of the business, the costumer might end up liking the page.

To know more about Fliike, watch the video below:

For now only a limited edition of 500 Fliike is available on preorder for $390 plus taxes/delivery and the first batch would be shipped at the end of November 2013. So hurry up and order yours as soon as possible.

So what do you think about Fliike? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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