What ARE those things?

[frogbison]

Can anyone give me a name for those small cardboard pictures that are layered on top with ribbed plastic. The image changes as they are turned. Just can't think of the name in my dotage....

[liberal N proud]

1. What on god green earth are you talking about?

[katsy]

2. like holograms?

[gateley]

5. We used to call them something else before we knew the word holograms -- but

yeah, like holograms.

[Jed Dilligan]

8. I've got it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing

[Jed Dilligan]

3. I know what you mean.

They used to come in Cracker Jack. Never knew them to have a specific name. Magic pictures?

[gateley]

4. I know what you mean, but I can't think of the name, either.

Like on a keychain you have a pic of Obama on a plastic tag. You turn the tag (not OVER, but side to side) and it becomes Clinton. Right, frogbison? THOSE things?

[SoCalDem]

6. flash cards?

[SpiralHawk]

7. Hmmmm?

[Jed Dilligan]

9. Lenticular printing

See above for Wiki link

[gateley]

10. Wow. Good job! What did we call them, though - do you remember?

Did we call them anything?

I'm sorry I ever clicked on this thread - driving me batty.

[Jed Dilligan]

I don't remember a specific colloquial name

Sorry. I think I saw on some site that Cracker Jack called them "magic motion cards" for a while.

[trusty elf]

22. We used to call them "wiggle pictures".

[frogbison]

12. I knew DU would come through!

Thanks, all, and to SoCalDem, as well, for the laugh.

Lenticular printing, eh? You see?! In the large group that is DU, one can usually find someone who knows the answer.

[Jed Dilligan]

14. I actually just got bothered and did some mad googling

So it's my research skills, not my knowledge, in play here. Glad to help!

:hi:

[frogbison]

20. I thought about googling too

but, as you can tell from my OP, lacked an adequate, short way to describe them. I'd be interested in your thought processes as you googled.

[Jed Dilligan]

21. Cracker jack prizes, magic picture, magic motion card, moving picture,

moving picture sticker. I ended up at a printing site in China that makes them and my knowledge of Latin helped me decide to click on "Lenticular Stickers" as a likely candidate. There wasn't much English but it looked right, so I went to Wikipedia to confirm it.

Research and language skills--consistently feeding and housing known layabout and scoundrel Jed Dilligan since 1997.

[NMDemDist2]

11. kaliedoscopes?

:shrug:

[Jamastiene]

13. 3D pictures?

http://members.cox.net/jeepers/3dpics.html

[sam sarrha]

15. prism pictures..

[Fridays Child]

16. Lenticular pictures

[Ellipsis]

17. "Blinky Cards" n/t

[lies]

18. Stereopticon and Panopticon

I once named a song Stereopticon

[melody]

19. "Those little picture doohickeys that change images when you turn them"

I believe that's the technical term for them in my house.