I’ve loved Polaroid ever since I was a little kid. Back in the 90s before we had smartphones and selfies, a Polaroid camera was the ultimate level of fun you could have. Polaroid, paired with my mom, inspired my initial love of photography, and this was before I was old enough to know about F-stops. […]
A retro movement nearly a decade in the making has finally reached its culmination. While Polaroid has been busy staying alive by lending their name to digital instant cameras, the Impossible Project has been loyal to the analog ideal, preserving and selling original Polaroid film and cameras. This week, the two movements came together. The […]
Polaroid is getting a little more hands-on with digital photography this year. Following in the footsteps of the first generation Polaroid Snap, Snap Touch combines the digital camera and instant printer of the original with a 3.5″ LCD touchscreen for framing shots. It’s instant photography, but a little less instant. The Snap Touch has all the […]
Making retro-looking products is its own sort of weird sub-market, and it’s so saturated that some have taken extreme measures to come up with new ideas. Take this thing, which is the physical embodiment of a Friday blog post — the Polaroid TV Smartphone Screen Magnifier. As usual with these things, the name really does say it […]
Back during the heady days of the Lady Gaga/Polaroid creative partnership, Polaroid (or Lady Gaga?) figured out how to bring instant photography back from the grave with the introduction of Zero Ink printing, using special paper with embedded color crystals that are activated by heat during the ‘printing’ process. Apparently, Polaroid has had enough success […]
Last summer, Polaroid released the Cube, a less-than-palm sized action cam with its own range of mounts and straps. It wasn’t a technical powerhouse, but if you needed something that wasn’t going to get in the way or get knocked around during some of the more extreme of sports, it was a worthy choice. At […]
Polaroid is nothing if not distinctive. First shown off at CES in January, Polaroid is unveiling the finished version of the Cube, like a miniature GoPro lite, at CE Week in New York. It’s tiny, it’s adorable, and it should be a hit with anyone looking for a lightweight action cam.
Polaroid never fails to impress. Here at CES 2014 they’re showing off two of the cutest darned products we’ve seen in a while. There’s the instant digital camera (with printer), the Polaroid Socialmatic, and then there’s the C3 Action Sports Video Camera, a miniature dice-sized cube. The Polaroid Socialmatic looks strangely familiar to the instagram […]
The Impossible Project has long since proven its name a misnomer – their efforts at bringing back instant photography and the Polaroid cameras that used to make it happen have borne fruit on a number of occasions. And now, they’re bringing back Barbie. The Barbie Edition Polaroid 600 Camera has been remastered and made ready […]
Polaroid came out with a one of a kind Android powered compact interchangeable-lens smart camera, the iM1836, for easy, near instant, point, shoot, share, capabilities. At 18 megapixels, pictures are high quality. It comes with a 10-10mm optical zoom lens, with option for interchangeables, like those found on D-SLR cameras, while maintaining a light weight. […]
Polaroid kids tablet was named a CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree in the Tablets, E-Readers & Mobile Computing product category. It is a highly durable tablet that is 7.0” and runs on Android 4.0. It comes fully equipped with a customized array of apps like Draw, Music Studio, and Kids Cam, all […]
Polaroid has a long history of being an innovator in the camera marketplace, and that’s exactly the problem its facing right now- is the brand history? In recent years it has tried to reinvent itself, but after filing for bankruptcy twice in the last decade and a collaboration with Lady Gaga in 2011 that seems […]
There’s no guarantee that it won’t come off as awkward imitation, but for what it’s worth, the Polaroid Instant app for the iPad does its best to imitate the old Polaroid instant camera experience. When you take a photo with the app, you’ll see a dark photo appear to drop from the camera on screen, […]
Polaroid has found a way to stick to its instant photography roots, even in the digital age. Previous iterations of Polaroid’s instant digital cameras have looked more like the classic Polaroid models, but the Z2300 fits the idea into the form factor of a standard digital camera, slipping a thin printer into the camera’s body, […]
Lady Gaga’s forays into the next generation of Polaroids have been well documented, but some aren’t satisfied with raising an almost dead brand from a shallow grave — for some, the cameras themselves need to rise from the dead, too. The Impossible Project has resurrected yet another classic Polaroid camera. This time, it’s the first edition […]
Like a whirlwind, CES 2012 has came and went. As usual, this year’s show floor was full of technology wonders that you can expect to see more of within the coming months. But in the midst of the hot mess of new gadgets there were a couple of new electronics and technologies that especially stood […]
What happens when you ram an Android phone and a digital camera together, losing the calling plan in the process? You get the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera, a digital camera with a 3.2” widescreen touch display that runs Android. Announced this week at CES 2012, the Polaroid SC1630 combines low-end digital camera technology with smartphone […]
Digital cameras? Mainstream. Hipster central Urban Outfitters is selling a very limited edition treat for fans of the original instant photography device — the Polaroid camera. They are selling the remaining refurbished units of the Sun 600, made in the 1980s. The Vintage Polaroid 600 Camera Kit, by the Impossible Project, also comes with two packs […]
Polaroid’s Instant Printers have always unleashed the creative artist inside of its users, and now a new exhibit celebrates artwork by artists, designers, photographers, actors and musicians, who have all used Lady Gaga’s GL10 printer to create unique works of art. Some of the well-known celebs who have contributed to this new Made in Polaroid […]
Did you know that today is National Camera Day? That is right – July 4th, take that! Without cameras we couldn’t take pictures of your flashy fireworks. In fact, everyday we all seem to celebrate National Camera Day, as cameras have become a part of our daily life more and more. We take snaps with […]
This morning Lady Gaga and Polaroid unveiled a special interactive window display at Bloomingdales which showcases their first Grey Label product, the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer. Bloomingdales customers and passerby can now experience the storefront window display which was designed in collaboration with the House of Gaga, and they can even have some fun by […]
