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Story projectors
Story Projector
A projection platform for bedtime stories, images and audio content.
Reference images show a starting point. Shape, materials, color, functions and packaging can be developed around your brief.
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Manufacturing reference
What this reference shows, and what you would decide.
A round bodied projector with a top mounted lens and a ring of controls around it.
Pointing the lens straight up is a different product to pointing it sideways. The unit sits flat, projects onto a ceiling and needs no propping, but the focus ring and every control now share the top face with the light path. A large side dial gives an adult something to find in the dark. A cylindrical body is stiff, which helps hold optical alignment.
Choose this reference when the product is meant to be set down and left running at bedtime. Decide the image library format, the auto off behaviour, and whether the controls are meant for the child or for the adult, because that changes their size and their position.
Decisions this product type puts in front of you
- Optics Lens, focus travel and light source decide whether the image is sharp on a ceiling at bedtime. Fix the throw distance you are designing for, then check the corners of the image, not the centre.
- The image library Discs, film strips and slides all need artwork prepared for the format. Agree how many images ship in the box, who owns them and how a new set is bought once the product is in a home.
- Light and bedroom use This is a product used in a dark room by a small child. Decide the brightness range, the auto off timer and what the unit does when the story ends, and write that behaviour into the specification.
- Power and handling A torch is held and dropped; a bedside unit is not. Pick the cell type, the switch and the housing for the way the product is actually used, and say what happens as the battery falls.
- Packaging Discs and slides have to be held, presented and reordered. Plan the tray, the starter set and the refill pack alongside the product rather than after it.
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- Whether the product is handheld or sits on a surface.
- How many images or stories ship in the box, and who owns the artwork.
- Whether narration is included, and in which languages.
- Destination markets and the age grade you intend to print.
- Quantity, and whether image sets are sold separately.
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Custom development
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Functions
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Presentation
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