Comments on: Tiny slide-projector for your digital pics

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:21:00 +0000

Depending on the cost, that would be an excellent addition to a scale model house or cinema for extra realism. $25 isn’t even all that much if you were that interested in modeling. Come to think of it, a lower tech version (placing an led behind a similarly printed single slide) would work fine too, even if you couldn’t see the projector itself.

By: ashypete

ashypete — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:41:00 +0000

So slide film / E6 processing are hanging on (barely) and these guys want to make a slide machine for your crappy Instagram pictures that requires you to transfer the pictures ONTO to film (for a price)… Ok. I guess it looks cute but the idea behind it makes me scratch my head.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:48:00 +0000

I guess the problem is “have to”, not “pay”.

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:05:00 +0000

… and a tiny printer to save the memories. You pay to buy tiny ink cartridges.

By: Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:54:00 +0000

For the record, I think it’s a neat little project. I’m going to get one for my kid, along with a reel or two of her favorite art.

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:35:00 +0000

I can just picture Lester Freeman hand crafting a tiny little projector screen and tiny little fold up chairs so that some rich doll lover can buy one of these and set up a family projector screening in the attic of their doll house.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:18:00 +0000

I’m sure this weighs less, takes less electricity, and is quicker to set up.

-and less likely to get stolen-

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:16:00 +0000

I had a spiderman toy like this. It had a projector in his chest with a button on the back, and came with little image wheels that showed him fighting with Mysterio. Weirdly I eventually lost the spiderman toy (or my mom went on one of her secret ‘de-junkings’…) but still had the wheels. I’m really curious if it was just an adapted comic or it was made new for that.

Oh Nostalgia.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:11:00 +0000

Well go contact you congressman to have it banned.

By: Thomas Shaddack

Thomas Shaddack — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:43:00 +0000

Not really. There’s nothing in the business model that would *prevent* you from making your own slide wheels. You can make your own (would printing on a highres inkjet work? or you can print the photos on paper, then photograph it with a film camera and go the old chemical diapositive way), or you can pay to offload the work to the third party.

There’s a lot of space for these business models. Some people can’t even do as simple things as soldering.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:03:00 +0000

“hackable” & “you pay to have…” are incompossible.

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:23:00 +0000

Needs a little keychain ring

By: zantony

zantony — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:55:00 +0000

I want to see Tiny Don Draper’s pitch for this.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:27:00 +0000

Define “better”.

By: Red Monk

Red Monk — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:19:00 +0000

It might be a cute Xmas ornament.

By: Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Wow! What a waste of…everything!

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:46:00 +0000

In my younger years, my family would drag out the old projector a couple of times a year. The experience was kind of cool: a two button wired remote, a dark room, the reliable mechanical noise of the projector changing slides- cajunk, cajunk, cajunk, and the family reciting “the tell” of fond memories to the newer generations.

By: TooGoodToCheck

TooGoodToCheck — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:19:00 +0000

Not at that price point

By: Steve Nordquist

Steve Nordquist — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Kids dressed in 1890-1990s period costume, presenting to doll-size homemade saloons, catered hotel lobbies, drawing rooms and bank boards; they propose our hideous past, the dolls deprecate it, hilarity ensues. I am not clear how technical 300-slide presentations are compatible with this, but if saying no is halfway fun, then perhaps saying ‘not even on a fire-safe analogue’ will be all the way there. (You’re not supposed to rubberstamp everything here as cool after all; a little ‘Atari Spectrum culture ONLY’ might do.)

By: Heartfruit

Heartfruit — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:14:00 +0000

Maybe I don’t have the happy memories of slides that other do, but I fail to see the appeal

By: gratefulvideo

gratefulvideo — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:03:00 +0000

I do. I didn’t realize the wheels were actually tiny slides. There has to be a better way.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:53:00 +0000

What’s that? Who are they?

By: Sean Rea

Sean Rea — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:47:00 +0000

You don’t understand how slides work, do you?

By: gratefulvideo

gratefulvideo — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:24:00 +0000

Why wouldn’t it just use standard memory cards?

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:11:00 +0000

It’s designed for fun people to have fun with.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:59:00 +0000

You pay to have slide-wheels with your digital photos on them produced

Hmmm… that cost will add up over time and you have to wait until your orders come in. I think I’ll stick with a usb projector instead that can plug into my laptop and/or have a jump drive plugged into it.