Stamp.y Digital Camera concept doesn't look particularly pocket-friendly

We're sometimes a little sad that the joy of gathering with family and friends 'round the photo album has been reduced to the shallow act of pasting a link into a text field, so we're always intrigued when some gadget designer finds an interesting way to bring us back to something physical. The Stamp.y from designer Jinhee Kim certainly does that in an interesting way -- but perhaps not an entirely practical one. It's a digital camera with a very unusual shape and design allowing it to act as a rubber stamp. Take your picture through the proboscis-shaped lens, pop off the back, dab it on the handy ink pad, and then stamp that picture onto whatever you like. We think this would be huge in schools as a great way for kids to decorate their book covers, but physical textbooks will surely be a thing of the past before this becomes a reality.

[Echuu Posted Jun 29th 2010 10:50AM]

This looks like it could be fun, just wondering if the finished stamp would like anything similar to the picture.

[MrFluffyThing Posted Jun 29th 2010 1:58PM]

@Echuu We need a toaster camera. I want nothing more than to take random pictures and burn it into a slice of bread...

[big nazty Posted Jun 29th 2010 10:53AM]

i can use this with my evo

[Genicus Posted Jun 29th 2010 1:43PM]

@big nazty why does the EVO has to be mentioned in every article?

[baltwade Posted Jun 29th 2010 10:55AM]

This would be great for people who are into stamping. Custom graphic stamps can be expensive.

[jam1n Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:00AM]

Gets the stamp of approval from me :-)

[TheEvilMachinist Posted Jun 29th 2010 12:00PM]

@jam1n several bad puns later...

[buffalosolja42 Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:05AM]

Would be ideal for personalized postage stamps, tie in with USPS or any other courier and they will be set.

[wismann Posted Jun 29th 2010 12:33PM]

@buffalosolja42
This thingy will indeed be closely tied to the courier. What?

[christopherius Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:06AM]

This is cool

[MrCheeks Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:08AM]

Where's my elephant?!

[HrVanker Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:09AM]

I never would have made it through school, if we had digital textbooks... I hope for the sake of this gadget, and future students, that textbooks stay physical!

[Arkv2 Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:11AM]

Digital butt-plug?

[NHAnimator Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:16AM]

Some people 'would' consider this to be pocked-friendly. But then again, those people walk around with a banana in their pocket.

[C64person Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:33AM]

@NHAnimator Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just really happy to see me?

[Tommy Five Posted Jun 29th 2010 11:44AM]

I doubt textbooks will be a thing of the past. If every school moved on to digital books, imagine all of that e-waste. Besides, that would mean voters would have to approve of new school budgets - that simply doesn't happen in real life.

[txkimmers Posted Jun 29th 2010 12:30PM]

My kids wouldn't think they needed a textbook available to make great use of this. This is a totally cool thing, I wish I could buy a couple right now. In fact, when *can* I buy a couple? My inner twelve-year-old is jumping up and down.

[travelgeekette Posted Jun 29th 2010 12:45PM]

This reminds me of that Polaroid camera that allowed the pictures to be turned into stickers. Same exact concept as far as I'm concerned, and even less applicable. FAIL

[DefaultAnonAccount Posted Jun 29th 2010 12:55PM]

@travelgeekette If you could not use the word fail in any sentence that would be greeeeattt, because clearly you can't even use it properly. This camera looks sick as fuck.

[tad604 Posted Jun 29th 2010 1:17PM]

Why bother with the camera? just give it an sd card or usb cable so you can load pictures on it.

This is pretty cool.

[adamorjames Posted Jun 29th 2010 1:44PM]

@tad604
Keep the camera but have an SD card reader too.

[tad604 Posted Jun 29th 2010 5:32PM]

@adamorjames ditch the camera and the lcd and the price might drop from 300+ to something reasonable like 100+

At 300 plus only those with money to burn are going to buy it. 100+ and you might get a loft of "scrap book" and crafty types shelling out for it.

[exNewt Posted Jun 29th 2010 1:56PM]

Didn't the Flintstone's take pictures this way...?

[RonC Posted Jun 30th 2010 7:52AM]

Okay, I feel dumb since no one else has asked how this works. How the heck do it create a stamp? When I think of a stamp, I think of a surface with topography where high areas pick up ink to press into paper, and low areas don't. How does the camera achieve that?

[macrumpton Posted Jul 1st 2010 4:49PM]

Far more likely would be a camera with a row of inkjet nozzles on one side so you would take the picture and then draw the camera edge across the printable surface of your choice so it can spray a monochrome image of whatever you photographed.