Several years back, Topps did some audio cards. Ripken was the subject. I have two different and they were inserts in the Stadium Club product. They were actually pretty neat. You pressed a raised "button" on the card and it played a brief audio clip of a historic moment. However, at some point the battery will die and they won't play anymore. I didn't see a way to "open" the card to replace the battery, so in the end you have a really fat card that doesn't do anything.
Power Decks, Talking Baseball from the late 80s, Mattel Mini Records of the early 70s, 5-7" record cards from the 70s, etc. None of these have caught on much past the odd novelty, and most only because they were somewhat limited in their distribution. Donruss even had those computer cards in the late 90s. V 1.0 or something like that. They were like CDs. Nobody cared.
My thought on the "card" in the link is that it is not really a card at that point. It's like a portable electronic device with a signature on it. It may have a market as a sports collectible in the future, but I think trying to make that transition to it being a trading card is a bad idea. Until the technology is affordable, you can't replace traditional cards with it, so it is yet another ultra high end item only well off adults will be able to own. We need more high end cards like we need our taxes raised!!
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