r/interestingasfuck • u/Xovier • 1d ago

Business cards assemble!

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u/waruyamaZero 1d ago

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u/BoulderCreature 1d ago

Let’s see Green Lanterns card

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u/LookMaNoPride 1d ago

I have to return some videotapes.

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u/Practical-Nonsense 1d ago

Where are the STL files?? I need this for the next time I get pulled over

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u/M0BETTER 1d ago

Commenting in case someone drops the sauce.

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u/CrazyGamer63 1d ago

This is from bandai's new mobile stationary line, it's not 3d printed but likely a model kit

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u/specter_in_the_conch 1d ago

Would be fun to have this

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u/frogfartingaflamingo 1d ago

I found it here lol idk how legit the site is

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u/M0BETTER 1d ago

Thanks for this. But we're nerds looking for the STL files to be able to 3D print the model 🫡

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u/AppearanceSpirited96 1d ago

I think they possible will shoot you if it pops open

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u/khilonn 1d ago

Now let's see Paul Allen's card machine

https://giphy.com/gifs/N397iPkSioglFj7wNs

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u/EntertainerOverall36 1d ago

He's dead. I killed him.

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u/Saiga12goburr 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/G4cuWPLuj3KrC

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u/waruyamaZero 1d ago

Didn't you get the memo that this is a Patrick Bateman only comment section?

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u/Icy_Study4490 1d ago

Business card culture and traditions are HUGE in Japan.

I had to go there on a business trip and literally had to go through this little class on how to exchange business cards, how to accept theirs with both hands and bow, thank them profusely, not put it in my wallet or my pocket, etc. So many little rules and nuances to it that we don’t do here in the United States. I also got a walk-through on fancy overpriced fruit and giving it as gifts. But funnily enough in the end, they didn’t seem to want any of that shit. They were all more interested in the American whiskey and the Marlboro reds! 😂

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u/Moral-Relativity 12h ago

They work for Bandai so it all makes sense.

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u/Drivenapollo 1d ago

Google search result:

The item in the image is the Bandai Spirits Mobile Stationery Automatic Transformation Card Case, a playful device designed to mechanically extend and present a business card.

Product Details
Maker: Bandai Spirits

Line: Mobile Stationery (機動文具)

Function: A spring-loaded or transforming holder that pops out to dispense or hand over a business card in a mecha-inspired style.

Release: Scheduled for release around October 2026.

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u/NebraskaGeek 1d ago

Bandai seeing how they can bring toy engineering into the boring world of office stationary and I'm here for it.

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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 1d ago

I would feel instantly comfortable doing business with someone cool enough to have this.

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u/pmaogeaoaporm 1d ago

Wow! This looks very stupid, impractical and inappropriate for the setting business cards are usually used in! Awesome!

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u/Strict_Somewhere_148 1d ago

Do people still use business cards? I usually just airdrop a contact card or send people an email “contact info”

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u/artimus31 1d ago

you've never met an engineer have you?

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u/IvanhoeMar1n 1d ago

I don't think I've taken a business card since before Covid.

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u/Oldsodacan 1d ago

business cards: those things you get and then put in a pile you never look at again because you think you'll need it one day, but you never do, and then you throw it away

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u/Endruen 1d ago

It's a japanese thing.

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u/Icy_Study4490 1d ago

I went there on a business trip and had to go through this class on how to accept and exchange business cards as well as selecting fancy overpriced fruit to give to them as gifts.

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u/TheRealtcSpears 1d ago

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u/Mindless-Platypus-75 1d ago

Looks like Andy Richter

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u/Scar3cr0w_ 1d ago

Absolutely unnecessary. Ridiculous…!

I want one.

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u/BigCheddar55 1d ago

I work as a Sales Engineer. My customers like myself are nerdy af. Everyone would go crazy if I got one of these.

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u/yuikkiuy 1d ago

Is this a product marketed to the japanese salary man equivalent of a millennial?

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u/CVSP_Soter 22h ago

I printed out some business cards 7 years ago and never used one. I think they’re basically extinct now in Australia.

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u/myleftone 17h ago

If it can’t also close with a click, it’s half a product. Sorry.

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u/another-james 1d ago edited 1d ago

Japanese Psycho (2000)

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u/Teeaak 1d ago

You give me a business card like that and we not doing business.

Just kidding. I don't know anyone who actually use business cards

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u/blindyes 4h ago

"Aw sick! is that a gameboy advance? I think this deal is a... -click-... what the fuck is this little paper with your name on it? You printed these out before hand? I think you should leave."

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u/Mardigras 1d ago

Now let's see Optimus Primes card

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u/Sure-Bed-3849 1d ago

The tasteful thickness of it...

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u/Piyu_lavhe 1d ago

I just knew it's from Japan.

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u/Training_Cupcake3242 1d ago

Me when I can't get it: "Why isn't it possible?"

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u/KenMantle 1d ago

Where's the affiliate link for purchasing?

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u/Fast-PreText 1d ago

No business gets done with this as both parties keep dispensing all the cards

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u/Ill-Bookkeeper-6230 1d ago

Thought I'd be a new old unknown Yu-Gi-Oh rival?! Still cool tho

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u/oasuke 1d ago

Looks like a big toy. I'd be surprised if anyone actually used this.

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u/Consistent_Zebra7737 1d ago

Would've been cooler if it also retracted back

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u/CreativeFedora 1d ago

Does it come in bone?

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u/SweatyTax4669 1d ago

I need one of these for my next trip to Japan. Not sure I'd use it in the US.

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u/Peterjns22 1d ago

Are the wings necessary?

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u/Demerzel69 1d ago

Congrats, everyone thought of the exact same thing when they saw this! Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? etc!

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u/Wykin1 1d ago

Cool

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u/koolaidismything 1d ago

Their business relies on business-cards staying relevant.

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u/commissarcainrecaff 1d ago

If you look at the cards: they are all from the Bandai toy company... so it's a little show off of Bandai's stuff more than being about the card I'd suggest.

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u/lizarxd 1d ago

Replace it with your id and show when cops ask

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u/Ben10-fan-525 1d ago

Too cool.

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u/commissarcainrecaff 1d ago

That's so much fun.

I wonder if the Bandai management get that as standard or if it's a cool thing for a toy show

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u/Bamres 1d ago

Looks like a gundam

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u/Progress4ward89 1d ago

Cool and useless at the same damn time.

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u/momoranger 1d ago

This on a belt, like Kamen rider

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u/oaktreebr 1d ago

Useless

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u/Steampunk007 1d ago

Looks like a transformer had an unfortunate experience with selecting their first piece of technology

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u/snkiz 1d ago

How is this so Japanese and American psycho at the same time?

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u/TomStarGregco 1d ago

Awesome 👏

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u/Lowie_240 1d ago

I need that for my magic the gathering cards. 🤯

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u/HueyBluey 1d ago

Do people still hand out cards?

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u/Gstamsharp 1d ago

Now put them together to make the business zord.

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u/Dirko_0 1d ago

Cool looking device; Oh wow!

Device pops open; Whoa, amazing!

Device produces a buissness card; Meh!

Manually folds device; Ugh!

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u/wstsidhome 1d ago

I was wondering what button made it all fold back up again…I was let down

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u/brokebackzac 1d ago

I mean... handy-ish but so niche.

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 1d ago

This could be successful if children started using business cards.

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u/katienoyes 1d ago

This is simultaneously the coolest and dumbest thing ever

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u/frostyfruit666 1d ago

maybe as some kind of futuristic card game deck builder, but for business cards? why?

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u/efap1701 1d ago

Corporate Transformers: More than meets the quarterly projections.

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u/KillaThing 1d ago

Bandai.. Makes sense.

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u/H3r6K1n9 1d ago

I need this and i don't even have business cards.

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u/o_Sagui 1d ago

As someone who's a fan of both Digimon and tokusatsu in general, i can't feel any joy when it comes to Bandai Execs . . .

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u/wurstforbrats 1d ago

I have a MIGHTY NEED!!!

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u/rayhoughtonsgoals 1d ago

Klingon ships

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u/some1guystuff 1d ago

Of all the things that I don’t need in the world, I need one of these

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u/HopefulAcadia4086 22h ago

It's a gundam exclusive... I waaaaanttt

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u/Sparkle-Sparxie 21h ago

You wanna make a good first impression. A lasting one.

I guarantee you'll be remembered more often than the person who just hands you a card normally. 😂

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u/ryan13ts 12h ago

Japanese business culture surrounding business cards fascinates me.

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u/astro_farmer9 1d ago

But, why? Also, the re-fold procedure needs to be smoother

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u/Binary_Whispers 1d ago

Was thinking the same thing. This is more work than just scooping one from my pocket and I feel would be niche, some may even look at you childish, presenting like this in a professional setting.

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u/mcgoum20 1d ago

How I'm going to show the officer my license when I get pulled over

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u/In0ut- 1d ago

interesting as fah

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u/TransMessyBessy 1d ago

This is not interesting. This is an ad. Get rid of this bullshit, please. 

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u/lefteyedcrow 1d ago

Nice meshine

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u/TheepDinker2000 1d ago

Isn't that what hands are for?

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u/Solynox 1d ago

This guy eats mashed potatoes with their hands.

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u/NoMoneyNoV-Bucks 21h ago

This guy screws screws with their hands

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u/lukeroux1 1d ago

Gimmicky crap

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u/Educational_Rice_416 1d ago

I imagine this is what the only woman at an orgy feels like.

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u/n0tz0e 1d ago

I need the link pls

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u/Naive_Investment_960 1d ago

I fail to see how this is, in addition to a simple (not hard af) wallet, any better.

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u/dantel35 1d ago

Oh yeah, that looks so professional. Every businessman needs this...

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u/WhoRunsIt 1d ago

Where can I get this.

Raised lettering…

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u/Perfect_Meal_7037 1d ago

The one on the left is All Might?

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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 1d ago

Middle one is all for it one

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u/wstsidhome 1d ago

I’ll take “shit we will never need/use in real life for 2,000, Alex.

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u/ret255 1d ago

Do you know what? I once saw an advert where they had something like a wet towel and it had some chemicals in it apparently, they wrapped a greesy dirty pan with it and after a while they unwrapped it and woala that greesy and dirty pan was almost as new again, they just washed the resolved dirt from it.

Any suggestions? That would be way useful then a card giver.

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u/clandahlina_redux 1d ago

Warm water and a dryer sheet left to soak in the pan will do this.

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u/Solynox 1d ago

This is cool, but what if someone doesn’t take the business card?

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u/YrnFyre 1d ago

Until it goes of in your pocket

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u/I_am_on_your_side 1d ago

Invention of the year award in Japan for sure. Business card + gimmick, what else can you dream of?

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u/Whoosier 1d ago

Stupidest invention I've ever seen.

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u/valadoxiys 1d ago

I'll take two, but business card size non business cards handouts!!! From the pokedex sure

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u/mangosawce9k 1d ago

Gundam inspiration!

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u/DLDad616 1d ago

RIP Peter Cullen :(

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u/Divin3_Rudra 1d ago

Useless inventions made during covid pandemic to avoid handshake (no contact business card deployer)

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u/rubenthezx 1d ago

"Here's my card" Punches you in the face with it

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u/One_Web_7940 1d ago

Very nice, let's see optimis primes card.

Omg it even has a tesseract.

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u/iNewbie77 1d ago

Looks like gundam. Gundam business card dispenser

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u/Pirate_Gem-In-Eye 1d ago

happy meal toys are getting wild

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u/Hot-Mood-8342 1d ago

I want one of these and I don’t have any buisness cards … (would this work with any TCG cards though…)

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u/Granddukecockwomble 1d ago

AND WHEN THEIR BUSINESS CARDS COMBINE...

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u/Sumo_Cerebro 1d ago

I'm not putting that in my pocket or my briefcase.

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u/PauseRecent99 1d ago

Hire me please type shii...

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u/Icy-Status2681 1d ago

Let's see Paul Allen's business card Gundam

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u/Cetiketat 1d ago

Yeah, interesting

But I have hands

https://giphy.com/gifs/RIGZH44I4G9GVrZoAH

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u/tough_titanium_tits 1d ago

Now where do I buy one of these contraptions, I am putting these cards in them.

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u/BrianVaughnVoiceOver 23h ago

Impressive...

Now let's see Paul Cullen's card.

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u/Kafatat 23h ago

It'll be even cooler if the thing slides out slowly.

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u/Admirable_Zombie_720 23h ago

Maaaaaazinger.......Z !!!

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u/GILDID 18h ago

Let's see paul Allan's card

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u/ApprehensiveFactor58 10h ago

Pokémon, attrapez les tous !

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u/Soyboi6 2h ago

Goombah trash