Gifts
Birthdays and anniversaries
Stitch together clips from everyone who couldn't be there and hand over one small metal object instead of a group chat.
A metal tape that
plays your video.
A brushed metal tape shaped like a VHS tape. Point a phone at it and a video you uploaded plays — a wedding toast, a birthday message, a demo reel, whatever you want handed to someone.
Stainless steelWallet sizedSwap the video anytime
Drag to rotate
The engraved line is yours to write
Playback in three steps
We cut the steel. You load the tape. They point a phone at it.
- 1
We cut the steel
Your label copy is laser-etched into a brushed stainless tape, wallet sized, with a code cut into the label window. It ships in a sleeve in about a week, already carrying its own code.
- 2
You load the tape
Scan the tape that turns up with your phone and hand it a video — a file from your camera roll or a link. Up to ten minutes per tape, and you can swap the footage later without re-cutting anything.
- 3
They press play
They point a phone at the label and the video opens full screen. No app, no account, nothing to install. The tape keeps working for as long as you keep it.
What's on the tape
Six minutes of footage beats a tape that says “thinking of you”.
Weddings
Favours and save-the-dates
One tape per place setting, all pointing at the same film. Guests keep it in a wallet long after the flowers are gone.
Tributes
Memorials and family archives
Home footage that's been sitting on a hard drive, given a body — something you can pass around a room or leave with a headstone.
Artists
Reels, demos, tour merch
Sell it at the merch table or slide it across a desk. A music video in someone’s hand is harder to ignore than a link.
Collectors
Shelf pieces
Custom label copy, your own runtime and grade markings. Numbered runs for anyone who still alphabetises a tape shelf.
Business
Leave-behinds that get watched
Swap the paper business tape for a 90-second walkthrough. Update the video after the meeting; the tape stays the same.
Pricing
Cheaper by the box.
Every tape includes hosting for the video, unlimited plays and one free re-upload if you change your mind about the footage.
From the first run
"My dad scanned it at the table and heard his own father’s voice. Nobody ate for ten minutes."
"We put one at every place setting. Forty guests, forty scans before the mains came out."
"Sold out at the merch table faster than the shirts. People held it like it was a relic."
A note from VanMan
I started this because I found a shoebox of tapes with nothing to play them on. The footage was fine. The format was dead. So I made the opposite: something built to last that carries video anyone can watch on the phone already in their pocket.
Every tape in the first run is cut by hand in a small shop and checked before it ships. If a tape ever fails, write to me and I'll replace it.
VanMan
First run · ships in september
Reserve a tape.
Leave your email and we'll send the pre-order link the day the first batch comes off the bench. No charge until you pick your video.
No spam, one email when it ships