Doppelganger, it's time to replace those figs. Kickstarter project

[The Lord]

So i found this cool idea on Kickstarter called a doppelganger. A personlized fig for the gaming table. I would love to see this thing get supported so i'm bring it here to the gaming community. [url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1882584630/doppelganger-the-universal-game-piece]

[Lochmonster]

THIS SITE makes miniatures out of kids drawings and personally I think it would be AWESOME to table top with all kids drawings minis.

[Marthian]

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[Dorje Sylas]

I would not call these 'personalized' figures. That makes it sound like another one of many 3-D printing endeavors, which it isn't. Instead this is a 1-inch wide dual-sided LCD screen for displaying images. I'd put it more kin to a digital cardboard stand miniatures.

Cool idea, but kinda this almost feels like it'd have a better run using E Ink's color e-ink technology. Static, low-power image display is exactly what e-ink was built for.

I still can't help but feel this is still a few years to early. Then again someone's got to push the market. Based on the kick starter is seems like he's looking to sell them at about $15 dollars each and 4 hours of active play time. It's got promise, and as NFC/Bluetooth controller chip prices drop it defiantly has room to grown in interactivity with the play surfaces (already you could make a base that interacts with capacitive touch screens).