Travel memories shouldn’t disappear into an endless camera roll.

Think about the last big trip you took. You probably came home with several hundred photographs. You showed a handful to a few people in the week afterwards, and then they went where all photographs go: into a scroll that gets longer every day, behind everything you’ve taken since.

They aren’t lost, exactly. You could find them. But you don’t, because finding them takes a reason, and there’s never a reason. That seemed like a strange way to treat the best week of the year.

A framed print solves half of it — you see it every day, and it becomes part of the room. But it’s one photograph, and a trip isn’t one photograph. A digital album solves the other half, and you never open it.

TripTap is both halves. A 3D-printed plaque of the place you went, made to order, that hangs on the wall like any other object you’ve chosen to keep. And an NFC tag sealed inside it, so that when someone asks about it, you hold your phone to it and the whole trip is there — photos, videos, the lot — in about a second.

No app. Nothing to sign into. It works for whoever is holding it, which is rather the point: the moment someone picks it up off the shelf and taps it is the moment it earns its place.

How we work

Every plaque is printed when it’s ordered, in Scotland, and the tag inside it is programmed and tested before it goes in the post. Nothing sits in a warehouse, which is why there’s a short wait and why we can add destinations whenever someone asks for one.

Your photographs are yours. They aren’t indexed, they aren’t shown to anyone else, and they aren’t used to advertise anything. If a tag ever fails we replace it and point the new one at the album you already have — nothing you’ve uploaded is stored on the tag, so nothing is at risk.

It’s a small operation. If you email us, one of us reads it.