Irising business card

The latest animated business-card from Cardnetics is this card with a built-in irising mechanism. The card is available as a finished product, a kit, or a Thingiverse object to download and cut yourself. It's also available in other sizes, including greeting-cards.

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Iris Business Card by clide (Thingiverse)

(via Reddit)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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chiark

I normally love engineering for engineering’s sake, but this just looks like a solution crying out for an application where there’s no application…
- kjulig
  
  Tell me about it… I’m trying to convince people that selling buttonholes would be a profitable enterprise, but so far no takers.
Anonymous

How many weeks till the greeting card industry rips him off?
Yep

That thing’s just screaming for a goatse mod.
tyger11

James Bond has found his business card design at last!
Anonymous

Great video and awesome product!
VICTOR JIMENEZ

“Ark me about our exciting cake eating opportunities”
Marktech

I like it. Particularly suitable for photographers, cinematographers… midwives… proctologists… mohelim…
- Jake0748
  
  “mohelim…
  
  ouch.
- chgoliz
  
  Aww, geez.
  
  Cigar aficionados too.
blake31a

I imagined the birth anouncement card going a different direction entirely.
Anonymous

There’s lots of opportunities for irises in industry. I have not seen iris doors on cars, trucks, busses, and aircraft, tho you see them all the time in large alien colonies, warships in space, enemy bases. Really popular for cameras, obviously. I’ve seen them used for the occasional home window, but they’re not common among the hobbitfolk despite the penchant for round main doors.
Nicky G

My next card is SO going to be the Cardapult v2. HOT DAMN.
RedShirt77

I feel like this would always be better if you could print something behind the iris. Or if there was a lens behind the iris.