Polaroid Pulls an About-Face, Decides to Re-Launch Instant Film Next Year

Polaroid broke a lot of hearts when it discontinued its instant film cameras. Luckily, new management has realized the error of old management's ways: they're re-launching the One Step Camera and instant film in 2010. Booyah! [Polapremium]

Last Original Polaroid Instant Film to Be Sold at Urban Outfitters

Polaroid killed production of its iconic instant film, but it hasn't gone quietly. The very last of the original film, along with Polaroid ONE600 cameras, will be sold in Urban Outfitters to diehards. More »

A House Wallpaper Made With a Thousand and One Polaroids

Here's one more reason to go low tech, and snatch a Polaroid camera (or a clone, since the Polaroid instant format is dead): I want one room in my house like photographer Luciano Noble's home, covered with instant prints. More »

AnalogColor Ruins Quality Photos to Create Mock-Polaroid Results

For those who cared enough to be hurt at the death of Polaroid Instant Film but not enough to make it themselves, there's AnalogColor, which turns your crystal-clear photos into murky, nostalgic simulacrums of the classic format. More »

Fans Get One Step Closer to Bringing Back Polaroid Film

The NYT just visited the Impossible Project, a group of Polaroid lovers (which include Dutch scientists), who dedicate their time in bringing back Polaroid film. More »

Seatbelt Camera Straps Buckle Up Your DSLR

Or your Polaroid. End those angry red neck marks left behind by your pack-in strap with these wide, smooth seatbelt vinyl straps. They're $20, recycled and made by hand. [Photojojo via Gadget Lab]

Crazy Polaroid Zealots Making Film Themselves

They call themselves the Impossible Project (Oh, what a name), and they want to give you a chance to purchase Polaroid instant integral film at a reasonable price next year. More »

This Is How the Japanese Want To Sell You a Tomy Xiao TIP-521 Photo-Printing Camera

Well, that is, if you're a scatologically inclined Japanese television viewer. What's that, Xiao-san? Squeezing my Zink sticker prints off at the pool? Arigato gozaimasu. [YouTube via Crunch Gear]

Giant Polaroid Flipbook Machine Holds 987 'Roids, Plays Your Short Film

Can it get any more adorably indie than a short film portrayed on 987 Polaroids that display flipbook-style on a giant drum inside a machine called the "Process Enacted Mutoscope"? I'm thinking no. The rig is pretty cool, though—letting you control the speed of playback frame-by-frame, as you can see in the video that follows. The obvious genre for films using the ol' Mutoscope, though, should be "Victorian Softcore." More »

Polaroid Bringing Back Classic 4x3 Insta-Prints With Forthcoming Digital Zink Cam

While the tears spilled mourning the death of Polaroid's instant film division are still somewhat damp, the company has a little spark of an announcement that could make hardcore 'roiders (of the best kind) happy—the company looks like it's finally getting serious about building its Zink instant digital printing tech into a camera. And it won't use the diminutive 2 x 3 inch format currrently spit out by the PoGo printer, which is the only product that currently features Zink tech. Instead, the new camera is planning to use the classic 4x3 vertical rectangle size, which became the company's trademark. And they're even taking (or pretending to take) suggestions from the public on the camera's features. More »

Lightning Review: Polaroid PoGo Wireless Mobile Printer

The Gadget: The Polaroid PoGo, an inkless printer that prints 2” x 3” sticker pictures from digital cameras via USB and cellphones over Bluetooth. More »

Polaroid Instant Digital Picture Frame Is the Only Frame I Want

The Polaroid instant digital picture frame is just that, a digital screen in the shape and size of an old Polaroid instant photo (my favorite.) It may not seem as ingenious as the Digital Jewel Box, but we can't resist its retro charm, and the possibility of writing messages on its dry erase surface. Not to talk about pinning them to a cork board or the way it shows the images themselves. More »

Polaroid Instant Film Killed By The 21st Century

Polaroid is closing its last remaining film plants in Mass. so the oh so fun instant Polaroids will soon become a thing of the past. Well it's already a thing of the past, but this time it's serious since no more instant film will be produced. More »

Sony #1 in LCD; Biggest Names Hold Fast, But Cheap-o Brands Taking Out Weaker Competition

Last quarter was an all-out TV-maker battle, and you my friends were the territory. DisplaySearch's results for Q4 '07 declared the victor in the US LCD category to be Sony for the very first time. Panasonic handily crushed all comers in the smaller US plasma race. Samsung, with strong #2 finishes in both, ended up remaining the #1 overall TV brand in the country, and LG also held its own. But... More »

Polaroid Unveils 2008 Lineup: Media Storage, TV and Digital Imaging

Polaroid's CES lineup is a little on the underwhelming side, but there are a few products that are worth a quick mention. These products include the Freescape Media Exchange, the Freescape mobile player, a full-HD widescreen LCD TV, a Wi-Fi digital frame and an 8.0 megapixel camera. More details after the break. More »

Polaroid Cellphone Printer Uses Zink Tech

Zink's zero-ink technology was developed in Polaroid labs, so its nice seeing the tech making it back to its home marquee. More on Zink's cellphone printer and camera with the printer built in, here.

"Innovative" New Polaroid t703 Camera Not Innovative But Definitely Cheap

Polaroid, once the fun company that marched to its own weird drum beat, is now officially in lockstep behind every other electronics maker. The "innovative" new Polaroid t730 digicam boasts the following: More »

Technology Review Nominates its Objects of Desire: Gizmodo says 'Phwoar!'

Technology Review has rounded up a bunch of objects that it feels are design classics from the past 30 or so years and got a bunch of industrial designers to talk about them. And you've gotta admit they're right—on some of the candidates, at least. First up is the Polaroid SX-70, which dates back to 1972. More »

Polaroid ClickFree Lets Moms Back Up Photos

Polaroid's ClickFree backup drive is supposed to let regular people back up the data on their hard drives just by plugging it into the USB port and hitting go. They plan on releasing two versions, one standard (which backs up all data on your drive) and one photo oriented (which searches and only grabs the photos). More »

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

Polaroid is not dead yet. Apparently it was only sleeping, but now its research labs have smelled the coffee and spun off Zink, a company whose first product will be a stand-alone printer that's about the size of a deck of cards. This one-button printer is designed to easily connect to a camera phone, and will cost less than a hundred bucks. More »

The Worst Digital Cameras

Any Tom, Dick and Jane can write up a list of some of the best digital cameras out there, but it takes a real cynical critic to roundup the worst digital cameras. Kodak, Canon, Polaroid and Pentax all make up the list. Jump to find out which cameras you should avoid come holiday gift time. More »

Polaroid Portable DVD Player, No Shaking Required

Polaroid—yes, that Polaroid—has announced their latest portable DVD player, the PDJ-0793. Most of the time I don't get a flying hoot about these portable players because a laptop can do the same job and is a bit more functional, but this one looks a little better than the average bear and has a reasonable price. The PDJ-0793 has a 7-inch screen mounted on a swivel base. It displays at a 16:9 aspect ratio and the battery life is average at about three hours. It also includes a headrest mount for the kiddos in the minivan. But the best feature of all, it doesn't require shaking to get the image to fade in—good job stepping it up in the technology world, Polaroid. Available for $175 or so. – Travis Hudson More »

Polaroid i1032 10 Megapixel Camera

A point and shoot that gives you 10 megapixels and doesn't cost over $300? That's what Polaroid's serving for brunch with the i1032. Keep this 3x optical zoom camera in your purse for convenient high quality photo shooting, provided you can keep yourself balanced on your Yamaha while fending off ninjas with your other arm. More »

Polaroid MGX-0550 GPS Navigation And DVD Player

This thing's probably not legal in the UK, or many states in the US, like California, but Polaroid has combined a GPS Nav system with a DVD Player. More »

Adesso Polaroid Guest Book Kit

We hate how expensive Polaroid film is but we're suckers for their look and feel. If we ever get hitched we might just splurge out on Adesso Album's Polaroid Guest Book Kit: $139.95 for a fabric-covered book that holds 30 photos in archival paper and still closes flat, a Polaroid ONE 600 Ultra Camera and two packs of Polaroid 600 film (40 exposures). Additional albums are $59.95 each or you can get custom leather-bound ones starting from $350, depending on how many pages you want in them. More »

Low End Theory

Polaroid: Still Raging Against the Dying of the Light

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Polaroid's 80GB PMP

Polaroid is going to hit the PMP market big it seems. The company's new Portable Media Player with 80GB of storage was shown at CES and it looks promising. Aside from the huge amount of storage that's included, it features a widescreen display for crisp movie viewing. The interface seems to work fine, and even though the size of the player itself is somewhat big, it works well with such a nice screen. Kind of like the PSP was first received. It's got a late August of 2006 release date, but word is that the price will be around $600. Pretty expensive when you think of the other alternatives and such out there, but it could still be a winner if the price dropped down to $500. Keep an eye out for it. More »

Printer Phone Coming Soon??

This is the HS-RSS, a concept for cellphone photo printing. Add one of those telephoto lenses and you're a 2-megapixel Ansel Adams. Seriously, though, let's say we start getting cellphones that take pictures worth looking at (image stabilization would help). Would you print photos from a cameraphone?

Kids Poloroid Booth-Bring on the Fun

If you miss stuffing yourself into one of those curtained booths to take photos that always came out looking awful, you'll really appreciate the My Photo Booth Polaroid camera ($35). Of course, it's really made for kids, but you don't have to tell anyone if you really dig it. It's got a little mirror and comes with a timer and flash for the same type of booth photos you know and love. Of course, the pics you get are on the tiny iZone film, and will only be one-inch by one-inch, but they can be made into stickers, so it's all worth it. Comes with a roll of film, though it looks like it only uses the older iZone film, not the newer iZone 200, making it harder to find. However, check Amazon.com or go straight to Polaroid for refills. More »

Polaroid iZone 300

Polaroid seems to have carved out a niche for themselves in the teenage female market, especially with their fun iZone line. They've stepped it up to the digital age with the iZone 300, which is marketed to young women in general. The white design is reminiscent of the iPod, and while it's only 3.2 megapixels, it'll supposedly sell for cheap. The iZone 300 also sports a 3x digital zoom, a 1.5 inch LCD display, 8MB internal memory, and an SD card slot so ladies can take more photos of slumber parties or night club bouts or whatever it is young girls do these days. Although with a camera that looks this sweet, guys would probably want to get their hands on it too. More »