Ahhh Polaroid, almost too cool to survive. I love Polaroid cameras, and Polaroid film, so I was upset that I couldn’t get my fix once someone somewhere decided that they weren’t going to produce any more. I still have a fridge half full of film that I use as sparingly as possible.
Anyway, the people at Japanese toy company TOMY must have been feeling the same as they’ve partnered up with an ink company called Zink to produce these cool cameras. They’re available in Japan at the end of the month, and hopefully the imports wont be too far away. Check out the specs below, and if your Japanese is any good you might be able to buy one from here.
The new TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in Printer is a full-featured 5 Megapixel digital camera with a built-in full color ZINK™ printer. The xiao™ is a first of its kind integrated digital camera and printer that allows consumers to capture, view, and immediately print their digital images without ink, anywhere. Photos can now be viewed and shared right away – anywhere and all from one device. The xiao™ produces borderless, full-color, 2×3″ (5×7,6 cm) prints in less than 60 seconds.
The xiao™ features a “retro” design and innovative built-in software to enable a variety of entertaining printing options from templates to borders. It also features an IrDA receiver so that you can print images sent to the xiao™ wirelessly from other IrDA devices.
The TOMY xiao™ TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in ZINK Printer will be available in Japan on November 28, 2008.
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