GIF-TY Polaroid Camera: Make Flip Books Quickly and Easily

Flip books are awesome to look at and flip through, but they’re not the easiest or quickest things to make. For one, you’d either have to have a really quick trigger finger so you can take sets of burst shots in rapid succession, or a really steady hand so you can record short clips that don’t look off. For the latter, you’d also have to spend some time in front of the computer, editing shots before you can print them out.

Making the entire process of creating flip books quick and easy is the GIF-TY Polaroid camera concept.

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It gives you a physical GIF animation in your hands within minutes of shooting the entire thing.

The GIF-TY is basically a Polaroid camera that uses Z-ink paper. All the user has to do is turn the timer, shoot the 1 to 5 second segment, and hit the print button to make a physical copy of the images. The frames are then ripped and arranged in sequential order, and the flip book is good to go and ready for flipping!

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You can check it out in action in the clip below.

The GIF-TY was designed by Jiho Jang.

[via Yanko Design]

Impossible Instant Lab iPhone photo booth hands-on (video)

Life’s hard when you’re an analog enthusiast in the early 21st century. Thankfully, however, you’re not alone in this world — there are fellow travelers like the folks behind The Impossible Project, folks who bought a Polaroid factory to continue production on the company’s famed instant film. As we noted roughly a week ago, the company’s also launched a Kickstarter to create an iPhone-friendly gadget to go along with it. It’s since handily met its goal and is still chugging along at around $440,000 (from a proposed $250,000), with a full 19 days to go. The company also made an appearance on the show floor here at Photokina to show off what its been working on.

The Impossible Instant Lab is still in the prototype stages, as with a number of devices we’ve seen here today — though it’s fully operational. We got a demo of the thing from one of the folks at Impossible — just load the film into the rollers on the bottom, extend the old timey accordion top, choose the proper settings in the company’s iPhone app and place it in the holder.

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