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Gifty concept camera produces instant flipbooks

May 22, 2013 at 18:41:47 GMT
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Animated flip books have been around for nearly 145 years. With just a little thumb-work, these books allowed you to view a few seconds worth of animation. Now, a new concept camera known as the Gifty allows you to record video and print a flip book instantly.

The Gifty, designed by student Jiho Jang for his thesis project, records one to five seconds worth of video, which you compose through an optical viewfinder. When you finish recording, the Gifty prints all of the frames using Zero Ink technology, which you then tear apart and bind.  

This video gives you an overview of how it works:

Unfortunately, there's currently just one Gifty in existence, and it belongs to the designer. Could a Kickstarter project be in Gifty's future? Time will tell.

Via Yanko Design

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Total comments: 30
photo perzon
By photo perzon (3 months ago)

Better the review feature of the camera or phone

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blaketake
By blaketake (4 months ago)

LOL @ all the hate for this clever thesis project.

"who will buy this?"
"waste of time and money"
"useless"

This person's out there inventing things while we refresh dpreview with our cheeseburger covered fingers in hopes of a new Canon announcement.

GJ hating on something that's fun and makes us think. It's just a concept, and the student did a good job at it.

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jaygeephoto
By jaygeephoto (5 months ago)

Geez! Take it easy or switch to decaffeinated guys! It's obviously just a concept. I'd give her a "B" on the idea and an A+ on the choice of music - DBQ is timeless.

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Ubilam
By Ubilam (5 months ago)

Anyone remember the "SNAPPY"? (It allowed really CRAPPY still caps of video tape and was to change the world... I have one with the box.)

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audijam
By audijam (5 months ago)

what a waste of time and money....not to mention clients actually get pi--ed off if we offer something like this....sooooo jokes!

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Andreas Stuebs
By Andreas Stuebs (5 months ago)

Cripes how I hate the German GEMA! The video cannot be watched in Germany because these idiots are banning it because of some of the background music.

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BlackZero
By BlackZero (5 months ago)

By the way.. what the Heck is that lady trying to do with her hands??

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johnparas11zenfoliodotcom
By johnparas11zenfoliodotcom (5 months ago)

a beating heart.. silly :-)

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GaryW
By GaryW (5 months ago)

There used to be an internet service you could send a short video clip to and they would print out a flip book for you. The only negative is the time it took to edit video to get the clip you wanted. (Unfortunately, I forget the name of the service; I wonder if they're still around?)

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Marty4650
By Marty4650 (5 months ago)

Why would anyone want one of these things?
Would they actually pay money to own one?

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Timmbits
By Timmbits (5 months ago)

just for fun :D

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jhinkey
By jhinkey (5 months ago)

My 9 year old girls would love one of these . . . . especially if reasonably priced and rugged enough to dropped occasionally

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audijam
By audijam (5 months ago)

she might get offended by this....watch out...kids nowadays know and want things far more beyond our understanding.

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JadedGamer
By JadedGamer (5 months ago)

It's animated GIFs in physical form :)

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happypoppeye
By happypoppeye (5 months ago)

Thank God the D900 is going back to film ...nice work Nikon.

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Timmbits
By Timmbits (5 months ago)

huh???

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Johannes Zander
By Johannes Zander (5 months ago)

I AM A Nikon F7

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putomax
By putomax (5 months ago)

this looks like a interestinge POSSIBLE thing... but my dear editor "This video gives you an overview of how it works:" I don't think that's correct; this video gives you an overview on HOW COULD WORK, actually you never see anything that assure you this is working prototype and not a mock thing. just saying...

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Roland Karlsson
By Roland Karlsson (5 months ago)

Amazing!

I would never ever even think of the idea to make such a thing.

And ... I can not judge if the makers will be rich.

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fuego6
By fuego6 (5 months ago)

Rich? Umm... not likely... I'm sure paper/ink will cost a ton of money since no one is going to carry this thing.. and who wants this?

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viking79
By viking79 (5 months ago)

And that is pronounced Jiff-ty and not Gifty... ;)

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tkbslc
By tkbslc (5 months ago)

beat me to it! :)

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jaygeephoto
By jaygeephoto (5 months ago)

Oh thanks for setting me straight on that one. Is it yay-peg or gay-peg? Although, I think half the world pronounces it Nee-kon.
How does one pronounce Corolla in Japanese?

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Greg Henry
By Greg Henry (5 months ago)

I suppose this would be cool (if it were 1895). But we have smart phones now and that's probably "an app for that", regardless.

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Juck
By Juck (5 months ago)

Well, aren't you just a little ray of sunshine?

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fuego6
By fuego6 (5 months ago)

Ray of sunshine? Possibly not.. but 100% correct!

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Joe Wiegman
By Joe Wiegman (5 months ago)

Interesting idea, but who would use it?

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Kinematic Digit
By Kinematic Digit (5 months ago)

Hipsters of course.

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tkbslc
By tkbslc (5 months ago)

I think it would be novel maybe 1-3 times and then it would get thrown under the bed and forgotten.

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LensBeginner
By LensBeginner (5 months ago)

Agree, 100% novelty thing.
Kickstarter & commercialization = an initial peak in sales and then a rapid asymptotical dive towards 0.

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