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Re: The tiny Instagram projector

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post #2

Always good to see a new physical product on the market. All is well but I decided not to part with $35 for this product - simply because 9 photos are there forever and you can't change that. If you had a web interface where 10 of your photos could be selected and then projected, now that's what I'd be willing to pay for. I'm sure it'll be a success though.

That's exactly what they've built, look at 'Create a wheel' - you can get new ones for $8.99

Re: The tiny Instagram projector

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post #2

Always good to see a new physical product on the market. All is well but I decided not to part with $35 for this product - simply because 9 photos are there forever and you can't change that. If you had a web interface where 10 of your photos could be selected and then projected, now that's what I'd be willing to pay for. I'm sure it'll be a success though.

I'm not so sure it'll be a success. The price point of $9 for 9 pictures is very high. It's understandably so considering the effort involved, but as a pure value-for-money trade I feel it's too high. A lot of of their targetmarket will probably try it out but it might soon die out after the novelty wears off.

Re: The tiny Instagram projector

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post #8

I will be reminded of how completely out of touch I am with reality these days if this does well. That said, I somewhat jokingly predicted this trend previously. With the explosive growth of digital information and electronics, I think we'll see a renaissance of analog, mechanical, and otherwise "physical" things. Perhaps sometimes people don't want everything to be electronic/digital? Example: digital photo frames.

Lomo did pretty well for a while.

Instagram itself shows people want broken analogue style things.

Digital photoframes + instagram style filters might be popular?

Re: The tiny Instagram projector

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I would love to have something like this for doing impromptu presentations. But unfortunately I do not hold many presentations under a blanket. Seriously, how usable is this in daylight? Or is this just some 10 sec "ha, that's nice and now what?" gimmick?

Re: The tiny Instagram projector

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post #8

I will be reminded of how completely out of touch I am with reality these days if this does well. That said, I somewhat jokingly predicted this trend previously. With the explosive growth of digital information and electronics, I think we'll see a renaissance of analog, mechanical, and otherwise "physical" things. Perhaps sometimes people don't want everything to be electronic/digital? Example: digital photo frames.

We are using this as part of a physical escape-the-room game. Its a great prop, good price, and has a hidden puzzle whose meaning is in the images. Much more interesting than a screen with a slideshow, and enforces order which a bunch of printed photos wouldn't do.

Re: The tiny Instagram projector

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post #8

I will be reminded of how completely out of touch I am with reality these days if this does well. That said, I somewhat jokingly predicted this trend previously. With the explosive growth of digital information and electronics, I think we'll see a renaissance of analog, mechanical, and otherwise "physical" things. Perhaps sometimes people don't want everything to be electronic/digital? Example: digital photo frames.

At Hackday Paris in 2011 (48h hackathon), the winners among 49 teams were a group of three, who made listening to music a more haptic experience again. They called it NoiseBox, but they seem to have abandoned it: http://noisebox.herokuapp.com/. It was a cute hack and won, because it combined hardware, software and some magic.

I liked it very much, but then, why not just go straight to vinyl for the experience? See also: UK vinyl sales up 78 per cent in 2013: http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/69832

Re: The tiny Instagram projector

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post #18

I'd be a lot more inclined to believe it if I saw photos of the images being projected on a wall. Somehow I don't believe that tiny projector will look too good.

I very much doubt that the projector is of high quality or that the projected images would look very good. But if you're an Instagram user you're probably not extraordinarily picky when it comes to viewing high quality, high resolution images anyway. :)
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