I have a fondness for Polaroid. I have an old Polaroid 420 and it’s a really fun camera to shoot.
Polaroid has had its troubles moving into the digital age, and ownership by local Twin Cities fraudster Tom Petters. I had pretty much given them up for lost and then I heard about a small, portable printer they were developing, the GL10. Small enough to carry with you, battery powered, inkless, and what really caught my eye: built to print wirelessly from your cell phone via Bluetooth. It’s nice to show pictures on your iPhone, but to be able to print off a copy and hand it to someone, in the moment, that seemed, well, almost Polaroid. Lady Gaga endorsing it? Who cares. Chase Jarvis endorsing it? Now that’s news. Continue reading
