I know what you’re thinking, old man: “These kids today with their space rockets and their Yoo Hoo and their customizable notebooks! When I was their age I had a Trapper Keeper with cars on it (the Transformers ones were always sold out) and I didn’t have a service that allowed me, for the relatively outrageous sum of $15.99 for a 100 sheet 8×11-inch notebook and $10 for a 5.5×8.5-inch model, to customize my notebooks with lenticular photographs of my friends.” Well suck it, Grandpa, because this is 2009.
Snapily is one of those companies that lets you print stuff. They’re a dime-a-dozen right now but look at what you can print, people! Lenticular freaking notebooks for kids. You can upload an image or a illustration and have your custom notebook sent to your house.
Their website is abysmal – when you scroll over the images of the notebooks a huge window pops up and hides everything else and then it doesn’t support Safari or Chrome so MacTards and GoogTards can’t use it – but you can pick from multiple notebook styles including, but not limited to, 3D butterflies, 3D pink light rays, and Sea Shore Fun. You then upload one or more images and wait. Then you get a notebook. It gets sent to your house. I think we all see step 4 here… profit!
While I can’t imagine that the entire teenaged population of the United States has been waiting for this service it’s entirely feasible that some kids – mostly those girls who organize the eighth-grade dance and are cheerleaders and never talk to the fat kid in glasses who then go on to high school and join the popular clique and then graduate and finish with a degree in Communications from some party school and come back to their hometown and get married and live out in Powell, Ohio somewhere with a big yard and three kids and a husband who “did mortgages” until his buddy hooked him up with “FOREX trading” and who maybe meets that fat kid who is now a major web celebrity in a Kroger but she doesn’t recognize him because that girl got totally HOT and the guy just got fatter – may enjoy using the service.
HAHAH the last paragraph is hilarious. Here’s how much I don’t care about “notebook” as in the book you use to write stuff in, when I read the title, I thought it was actually referring to a laptop. So sad..I know. The last paragraph made my morning. Thanks. http://ziggytek.com/
And here I was…thinking that they were LAPTOP notebook covers.
Oh well…we’re not there yet. :-)
This is weird – I’ve been looking for a short run printing service so that I could print one lenticular image. Maybe this is it…
Hey Austin,
This is exactly what we are offering !
Snapily is the only online service today that allows you to print one of (short run) personalized lenticular products.
Thanks
Coming from the girl with glasses who studied too much, ate too much, and hated on the cheerleader types….let me know when this is about real notebook covers. You know…the kind where you decide what kind of processor to get rather than whether to get wide or college-ruled.
I had the Trapper Keeper with the palm tree and beach background =/
Seems pretty cool, and timely now that students are going back to school.
Thanks :-)
Hey, I take offence! I’m a proud googtard.
Yours is the second ageist article on CruchGear today (see the Facebook article).
As to ‘grandpa’, I’m younger than that, but my age group and I were designing and building the stuff you’re using long before the best part of you whining script-kiddies was running down your mamma’s leg. So you and Nicholas Deleon can f’ right off. ;)
Now having said that, I could care less if some tweenie spends 15 bucks for a custom notebook. I’ll be too busy spending a lot more for my custom 3-D stainless steel widget at Shapeways. So there!
bitter?
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Thanks !
That last paragraph was hilarious. It’s nice to see a rep from the site on here offering a discount as well (although that discount code may get very little use.)