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Well, the Instagram camera that started as a joke, then progressed to a design study, is going to be a real thing. Socialmatic has made a deal with a third-party manufacturer to produce it, somewhere out in the great Far East parts bin, and has teamed up with Polaroid itself for the […]
I thought this was just a whim on the part of a product designer, a few months ago: a little digicam built to resemble Instagram’s logo. I did a gag post about it then, then another when the idea gathered a little momentum. And this week Wired is reporting that it’s […]
It’s not exactly Polaroid-related, though it certainly talks about instant photography of a different kind. Here’s a story I wrote for this week’s New York magazine about an odd little cultural phenomenon: cameraphone snaps of ominous thunderclouds overhead, zinging their way around the Internet every time a storm threatens.
Those folks were kidding a couple of weeks ago, but a design outfit called ADR Studio has done a little design concept for an actual camera that looks just like the Polaroid-striped Instagram icon—and prints on the spot. With a white tab at the bottom of the photo, no less.
It’s […]
Newsflash via Paul: the Instagram camera, with special instant-photo technology built right in, is on its way. Story here.
[Update, 3/15/2013: I thought this was a joke at the time, but it isn’t anymore.]
Nick Bilton, the Times’s “Bits” blogger, has a nice long post up about the reasons big companies lose their ability to invent, and investigates the reasons Polaroid and Kodak didn’t go on to create Instagram. He leaves a few things out of the analysis–like the huge infrastructure investments the two companies had in film, […]
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