The Dutch agency Solar Initiative just recently developed a set of two regular-costing 39-euro-cent stamps for the TGP Post. The coolest thing about them is that they have moving images! Gone were the days where stamps were stills. This short movie on paper, featuring Dutch speed skater Yvonne van Gennip, is created using the lenticular effect technology.

These dynamic stamps greatly remind me of the postcards and newspaper photos we see in the Harry Potter movies, where the people in those pictures move, talk and have a whole life of their own. A familiar technology with a novel application! I’m looking forward to more of these moving postage stamps in future…