Polaroid Snap camera takes instant photos without ink

Still pining for the days when snapping a Polaroid and instantly (well, almost) showing a finished printed photo to your friends was a hot thing?

Well, Polaroid is still here (more precisely, at IFA Berlin) and it just announced the Polaroid Snap, a digital camera that can immediately print out a photo, and it doesn't even need ink to do it

The trick is in the Zero Ink printing technology developed by a company called ZINK. Instead of using ink, the camera uses special printing paper which contains cyan, yellow and magenta dye crystals under a protective polymer coating. The ZINK-enabled printer inside the Polaroid Snap camera then activates those crystals to create a full-color photo Read more...