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PoGo Instant Mobile Printer turns any cellphone into a Polaroid camera
Polaroid used to by synonymous with analog camera prints that developed in about a minute. Those prints cost about $1.20 each, but it was such fun that nobody cared about the cost. Then, digital cameras arrived on the scene with their ultra-convenient LCDs, and technology passed Polaroid by.
This July, Polaroid may be getting its mojo back with the PoGo, an inkless digital photo printer slightly bigger than a deck of cards that prints 2 x 3-inch snapshots. It uses Zink (no ink) technology, which uses heats dye crystals in paper to create prints. The prints don’t smudge, are water-resistant and are almost tearproof.
The PoGo prints pictures from cellphones via Bluetooth in about a minute, with the paper costing about 33 cents a sheet. For digital cameras, it connects easily through USB PictBridge. The colors and clarity of the prints looked surprising good to me (a sample after the Continue jump below). I used one as a Post-It by peeling off the back of the print (it’s sticky) and sticking it to my girlfriends' door.
With the small prints this is only a run-and-gun solution — great for school or at a party, or anyone who wants the old-skool instant gratification of a Polaroid. Priced at $150, the PoGo will be in stores July 6.
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By GIG 'EM at 10:07 AM ON 06/06/08
Interesting Idea, but they need to integrate it into a digital camera to really have a suitable Polaroid camera replacement.
By CJW at 11:57 AM ON 06/06/08
It's nice and flat. That should make it easier to lug around in a purse or backpack.
The printing technology uses seems to be pretty neat, like a self contained dye-sub media without a cartridge. Plus it lives up the Polaroid tradition of innovative, proprietary image magic. $.33 per photo is pretty cheap too, but 2"x3" is kind of disappointing. I guess if it were churning out 4x6 images, it wouldn't be as portable.
You forgot to mention battery life: 15 images on a charge. You also forgot to mention the coolest thing: the retro packaging for the paper: http://www.polaroid.com/pogo/images/specs_media_lg.jpg
Ok, maybe it's not the coolest thing, but it's neat ;)
By Wulf at 1:30 PM ON 06/12/08
Heat activated dyes in the paper. Does that mean that you have to keep the paper in a specific temperature range (i.e. not leaving it in your trunk till you need it)? Are the pictures like the first Polaroids that just faded after a time?
By plasticpopcorn4 at 10:28 PM ON 06/17/08
so how much is this going to cost? still seems like its in the pre-stages and shouldnt really be released
By traveltilidie at 7:45 PM ON 06/28/08
So where is the sweet spot in portability? Early adopters yearn for gadgets that are not only great but small. We have iPods or all sorts, small cell phones, 12 megapixel digital cameras that fit in the palm of your hand, UMPC's with 5-inch screens and now small, pocket-size printers.
At every turn we have to give up something. That is, the UMPC is great but the keyboard is too small to type on. The iPods are certainly portable but the screens render full length movies in such a small window. The printers are light and compact but yield only small prints, albeit colorful with great resolution. Think about it.
I own no stock in Polaroid but I will buy this printer. Why you ask? As a world traveler, especially to third-world countries, there have been many times when I wished that I could have taken a picture with a person I met along the trail and then give that picture to person with whom it was taken. Sharing and giving a 35 cent picture to a person encountered is an ‘ice-breaker’. It opens opportunities for conversation and perhaps other more candid photographs to be shared between the traveler and person encountered.
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By Julio Isias Aylas Caso at 8:27 PM ON 01/22/09
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