VM keychain Viewer (was 3D Sightings)

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Larry mentioned, he had some 3D sightings over the weekend. Well I had
one of my own. (other than the Sony lenticular case, which I was looking
for) I ran into, rather unexpectedly, into the VM keychain that was
mentioned on P3D awhile back and carried by Dalia. I was suprised to see
it and knew it would be in 3D from what I read here. Nonetheless, I peek
into it and I liked it and was rather cute to say the least. A teensy weensy
Red VM viewer.

On the packaging, it mentions the company that makes these have a web site.
So I checked it and in addition to the VM keychain, they have the
Etch A Sketch, Magic 8 Ball, Whizzer, among other must have key chain toys.
;-) The link with the VM keychain is at,
  http://www.basicfuninc.com/keychains/viewmaster.htm
and there homepage with other fun goodies is at
  http://www.basicfuninc.com
The keychain viewer is nicely made and comes with one miniture 7 scene
reel, but alas, only in 2D. Still a nice gadget and doubles as a keychain! ;-)
They do mention, they will be coming out with more reels, probably in
September. I wonder if Dalia is gonna carry them!

On a slightly more serious note, the interesting thing about the keychain
version, is that the image viewed is slightly larger than it's much bigger
sibling! (but of course the focal length is much shorter.)

Gabriel with a 3D space sighting of his own at
http://www.generation.net/~jacob/space.jpg
 


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