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Comments(0) Polaroid Instant Digital Camera
If you’re mourning Polaroid’s recent decision to stop making film for its classic instant cameras, here’s some good news. This 5-megapixel camera, due on the market in March, contains a built-in printer for producing 2-by-3-inch pictures on the go. The camera’s printer contains no ink or toner; the prints pass through a thermal heat head, activating dye crystals embedded in the print paper and producing an image.
The resulting pictures are a little grainy, but they’re ready in seconds and have a sticky-back feature for scrapbooking. And, unlike your old Polaroid, you can review the image on the camera’s LCD screen before deciding whether to print it.
“It’s not going to replace your 12-megapixel camera,” Polaroid marketing associate Michael Holmes said. “It’s fun. It’s convenient.”
The camera will retail for $199, and a 10-pack of print paper will cost about $5. –Brandon Griggs
[Jay David Bolter and Robert Grusin claim nothing is new about New Media, but rather remediations of older concepts or technology, and things like this remind me that both of them are right. From Elizabeth. BK]
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