I have no idea how many
postcards I’ve sent in my lifetime to family, friends, celebrities I’m stalking (jk!). And I always make a pretty
concerted effort to find cool postcards, you know. I mean, it’s lame to send people you love the basic, popular ones
that everyone else sends. And it got to the point if and when I ever traveled with my laptop that I would make little
postcards out of my photos. That never failed to impress. But now, some
dude in Australia has come up with a very clever little way to send those personal postcards.
Aussie entrepreneur
Stuart Calvey, a 22-year-old industrial design student at the University of NSW has invented the personal picture
postcardanator (OK, I made that up…he calls it the Snap Send Postcard), a disposable digital camera that is light and
inexpensive enough it can be sent in the mail. You just snap your photos, affix a stamp, and voila, send that baby off
to loved ones. Of course, a regular postcard would only set you back about $1…at most. Calvey says his postcard
camera, housed in a cardboard shell with a two-megapixel lens, digital memory and an internal battery, would cost about
$25. So they’d REALLY have to be loved ones. But you have to dig the idea.