Inspired by Egg's animated card and RAMWolff's smart chip. Here's the LCD display smart card ;-)
Soquili
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Inspired by Egg's animated card and RAMWolff's smart chip. Here's the LCD display smart card ;-)
Soquili
Inspired by Egg's animated card and RAMWolff's smart chip. Here's the LCD display smart card ;-)
Soquili
You may be on to something Soquili but I'm guessing the banks won't allow it! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Cool card.
Bob C.
Hi Soquili,
my brother had the same message yesterday on the display of a Win XP based PC. The PC is still alive but I don't know where HE is. Do you think there is a solution ?
Kindly,
ivan
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I'm with Ivan, what a concept. Bet they WILL allow it.
Concept is good. If the card is lifted, it has the smart chip, if tampered with the card simply stops allowing any sort of process, in short, throw it away, report it and get a new one!!
Of course, now I am all worked up, guess the "smart chip" needs to come "alive". Good gracious, this challenge is really working me.
I love it [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
RAMWolff [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
YUP...........!! Well, Soquili......I did it, I made the chip live. It's a beautiful animation. You all will see it. Worked really hard, designed 6 frames and it all plays together with all the effects that I wanted.
Stuck you say.........??
Here's what I dread being told and I'm sure that this is what I will probably have to do. I have the finished card, I have the finished animation. Is it possible to just plunk the animation onto the card and export it as an animation somehow??.........or am I going to have to do 6 copies of the card and try and place the 6 frames individually centered. If this is the case, I guess we will have to see.
My luck it will be jittering all over the place. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]
So, there is my dilema. Can someone direct me on this one??
Thanks so much.....off to bed I go
RAMWolff [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Hi Bob - maybe the banks would go for it if the effect only occurs when the card is reported stolen ;-)
Iven - Maybe if you but Win2000 on the PC your brother will reappear :-)
RAMWolff - If you put the card in a frame by itself and then check the B (background) option for the frame properties and have it the first frame in the animation. You would then only have to align the card once to the other frames of your smart chip animation.
Thanks!!
Soquili
Soquili, you and Egg have really animated this thread. The humour and skill make the thread a delight to open. Rammwolf, good luck with yours. Thanks, Neil
The best way to produce an interactive smart card is to use Flash (producing all the .swf's in XaraX of course) The final Flash .swf is 23 Kb
smart card
Egg
I think LED displays would be gone by the time your card comes out. I'm always reading articles about the next technology. Based on what I've read, you should look at www.e-ink.com and see what their displays look like. Flexible (put it in your pocket), durable, and some look like text on paper. They're trying to make an electronic book with real "paper" that can be reprogrammed. Would be neat to see your animated flash card with electronic paper display (it uses less voltage and once the display is "set" it will remain displaying that until you change it)
Robert
Neil - It was a lot of fun making the animation. Thanks for starting the Challenge.
Egg - Great interactive card. I'll have to download the Flash trial and give it a try.
Robert - Thanks for the link to the e-ink site. I'd heard about electronic ink some time ago, but hadn't seen anything since.
Soquili
YAWN........Stretch......Ho, hum....Ok, I'm awake.
Hmmmm. Still not quite understanding the whole animation thing. Guess I will have to see. If I place the check marks in both boxes on the cards properties in the new animation it wiii become the background for all the frames, right......??
Then the placement of the GIF question is there. Do I place in each seperate frame or do I just drop the finished animation as it's own frame onto the first frame?? I'm confused.
Then how do I go about placing this/these frame(s) so they line up where I need them on the card? By the way, the animation, for all it does, is only 16 KB.
Egg, I love that Flash card, now that's a concept. Very KOOL, Dude!!!
RAMWolff [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Hi RAMWolff,
To get your card placed in the smart chip animation:
Load the .xar for the animation and then open the Frame Gallery. Copy the last frame of the animation. Paste your Card image into the frame and position it behind the copy of the smart chip and align it where it should be. Then delete the smart chip from this frame. In the Frame Gallery click on this frame and drag it to the bottom of the list and check the B column. The card will now be the background for all the other frames in the animation. I suggest setting the properties for this "background" frame so it has a very, ver short display time by itself.
Hope this helps.
Soquili
Evolution is happening at a rapid pace. After LCDs and smart chips what is next. Ahh sound recognition. The XaraX "Goodboy" Obeys your voice commands.
Q [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I have a whopping 556 KB with the finished product. ICK!! Looks great in the browser priview. Wish I could share the whole thing, but that would get REALLY yelled at.
BTW: There are 7 frames total for the animation. I need them all, it's still "sluggish" and it would make the file even bigger if I put in more frames, so..........
When I finished the animation and saved it to the desktop I looked at the properties and WHAM!! Checked the properties and found that I had one large animation. I think its the card that did it. Egg already got enough flack for uploading a file that is over the limit, so I will beg off.
So after all that, I found a way to give you a viewing of it. Just the top part of the card. But that is just fine. At least you can see it attatched to a part of the card. 60.1 kb's. What a difference!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Let me know if you like it.
RAMWolff [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Egg:
Cool anim. and an interesting idea!
Quaker"
Great looking image!
RAMWolff:
The curse of using .gif animation [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img] especially with bitmap images. Nice little anim though, looks like ya got the hang of it!
Bob C.
LOVE THAT CARD...!!!
However, it would be too bulky to put into a slot. But I thought that out. The bottom of the card is flat, on the back of the card is where your "info" strip is loacated. That would work if, in the future, all stores and banks, ect....only had the slid through's instead of the insert the entire card setup.
Top of the card could be used for just about everything from sending a voice mail (which could be converted to text for sending to someones card or home computer (or whatever we will all be using then), recieving E-Mail, viewing pics and HTML files, to tuning into your favorite station (the LED would give you the song, artist, station name, with options to store the station in the chip for easy future access). Of course the mini screen would have to be expanded a bit more. On one side you have your volume controls on the other the srcroll buttons and a voice command would delete anything that is displayed on the screen, only by a certain unique voice octave programed in by you.
I have one weird imagination, eh?? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
RAMWOlff [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Re Electronic Paper...This will be a great step forward. I don't see electronic paper replacing credit or debit cards but it could well replace currency.
Electronic Ink Bank Notes
Love the GoodBoy Quaker. Animated Gifs are alright for very small animations and low colour banner adverts but as you say RAMwolff the file size soon shoots up. (One way around this would be to use the credit card as a background image on a web page and overlay a smaller animation of the text)
Egg
As an example of the small animated gif size CLICK HERE
Egg
With all these awesome high tech designs, I thought I would attempt a more organic, low tech approach [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
Gary
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So many great images! I love them all.
Soquili
The future of the smart card will be a unit that gets permanently embedded under your skin. As You can see in the image below, I agreed to be in a product trial. The big corporation has informed us that thanks to our contributions, the next generation of units will be so small that they won't be visible after the embedding procedure. (Focus groups responded unfavorably to pics of those of us in the trial - although they found me remarkably attractive they were still statistically adverse to the 'lump'. The big Corporation is now focusing monumental resources on miniaturization of the technology. With focus group results suggesting people were bothered seeing the lump on someone as beautiful as me, they relized the product wouldn't have a hope in hell on folks of average looks). The unit I have is rather large because I'm in the group testing the transactional telemetry. As a result, my unit incorporates cellphone technology allowing the big corporation to download, and test, new programming quite efficiently. When the units are on the market they won't need the cellphone capability so they will be much smaller.
The current transactional model I'm testing is kind-a neat. It envolves winking. - yes, winking! Anytime I want to buy something I just have to direct the orientation of the lump towards the product's universal bar code (the remarkably advanced reader 'sees' through skin) and wink. Upon winking the unit will audibly emit a 'cur-ching' sound reminiscent of old cash registers. This transaction model is proving to be less than ergonomic - but I'm not at liberty to discuss that aspect of the project.
In conclusion, stop thinking about credit cards, debit cards, phone cards, and 'smart' cards - their days are numbered. Before you know it the big corporation will have a chip in your head. (The butt will be an no-cost option).
I'm sorry but I can't answer any questions. I've already said too much.
Regards, Ross
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[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on January 29, 2002 at 20:19.]
And I thought I was wacked. You are one funny man Ross [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I'm a little concerned though for you [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
RAMWolff [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
That a good idea Gary. The credit card from the sto ... err wood age!
Here's my attempt for an alternate credit card that's a little bit out of the box:
The 'Xara Loose' is a "credit card" that uses infrared technology for small amounts of money like when you want to make a call from a payphone or buy a news paper or magazine, pay for your train or bus ride, buy gas or a can of coke.
It's totally secure as it works only when it finds your thumb on its screen. All you have to do is beep the money to the receiver at the other end and it gets debited from your account. It uses a simcard and button cells.
Now you don't have to carry loose change anymore! Very convinient.
Q
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I am not letting anyone embedd anything inside me! but then no-one can stop the march to the future. Maybe the BIG CORP will put in the chips in the babies right after birth.
heh heh. then you will have people doing chip surgery apart from facelifting and cosmetic surgery. "I just put in the latest Nokia or Xara Chip"
Ah there is another worry, I have. Whith all the great designs everyone has been making around here, maybe someone should invent a "particalizer"
The "Particalizer" will look like a printer once you've sent your design tto it instead to the printer, you get a readymade prototype in a couple of minutes.
Q
Why don't you try your animation in flash.
It will even keep the file size down and look great besides. Animated gifs do get heavy.
Q
Quaker -- Your two images are awesome. I think you are getting the hang of Xara, yes? The large ring in your last example is exceptional. Way to go.
Ross -- I thought that thing was supposed to keep you from wanting a cigarette ;-)
Gary
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Quaker-
the portable gizmo that electronically zaps your account is a great idea. As a matter of fact, Palm computers were on the verge of releasing that capability when NEC stepped up and threated them with a lawsuit. It appears that dozens of years ago NEC got a patent for "any technology that uses a beaming type system to electronic transfer funds from point A to B" - even though they have not produced any such device, no one else can now...are patents great sometimes? So, I wouldn't start produce your keychain unless you want NEC knocking on YOUR door (grin).
Egg-
Loved your electronic ink bank notes. Checked out the flash animation. Found it interesting that your system appears to take the money out of the account only after the person returns to the bank...what if I don't take it back? I like the new shopping debit cards that are out now. You go into Walm*&t and charge up $30 on your shopping card. Then you can use it for gas, groceries, whatever and the amount automatically gets subtracted from what you have. Of course, you better not loose it because it truly is like "cash" now...
Robert
As for your 'flash' suggestion. I don't know anything about flash as of yet. I have the KoolMoves prog. but haven't had any time to look at it yet.
Something that I did try. Thought maybe this would work similarly to what Egg did on line (his HTTP:// example, by the way Egg, thank you so much for taking the time, I'm sorry I seemed to be ignoring it, I was just processing the info, then I came up with this idea....)
I created a directory with all the "creations" I have done for the past couple of months. Then went the fills gallery and did a "disk fills" dialog and got it all set up. I scrolled to the card image I wanted to use. Hit the 'backgroud' button. I then had to resize the page (is there a way to have the page NOT tile any filled background?? If not, another suggestion for a future release!!) so it only showed one of the tiled cards. Then I imported my first frame and the background dissapeared.
It was my intent to use the background image and place the frames over it. I looked at the first one and it WAS really low in size (9 K's). So I think that if XaraX were to allow for "controlled backround fills" in animations as well as other projects (as in 1 of the image instead of tiled) then placing the pasted frames on top of it, that may help keep the file size down allot. What does everyone think about that???
Thank you
RAMWolff [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Very funny image Gary. It inspired the one below:
This archeological find was thought to be the earliest example of what experts think to be the first ever Xara Credit Card, so early, it is thought, that they were not yet certain how to spell Xara! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Bob C.
about nec getting the patent. but no problem, we'll come up with something else. LOL
ramwolff, in flash you could do the same. take the image as a background. put a mask on another layer over it and then feed in your messages. they will appear to originate and remain inside the LCD and plus your imagesize will be small too because flash comresses so much.
But your bg idea is great too!
Q