Linked on Things Magazine, Polaroid’s ZINK technology takes us one step closer to a modern day Land Camera, complete with a digital sensor and built-in printer. This is what it’s looking like.
Here’s a little science from the Polaroid website:
The patented ZINK Paper is an advanced composite material with embedded yellow, magenta and cyan dye crystals, activated with 200 million heat pulses, in 30 seconds, in a single pass. With 100 billion crystals in a 2×3″ print, the paper is 100% inkless. A ZINK-enabled printer uses heat to activate and colorize these crystals. Because there is no ink, every ZINK-enabled device has the unique benefits of being small, simple, elegant, and eco-friendly.
Watch a demo of the ZINK “on the go” printer on Engadget.
Does technology make anyone else sad?
5 Comments
January 11, 2008 – 6:24 pm
if you check out the zink website there is more info,
http://www.zink.com/
it makes me sad to think we are killing some old technology.. ie SX-70,
but this new tech stuff is interesting.. the question is.. how long will it last?
Will it be timeless, or become “retro”, or be dead this time next year?
January 11, 2008 – 6:31 pm
When will everyone stop fearing technology and realize that a 2 x 3 sticker is the future of art?
January 11, 2008 – 8:07 pm
Haha, good one A.
January 12, 2008 – 10:50 am
I think this is the most important point made on the Zink site:
“ZINKÑ¢ Enabled printers are not affected by gravity”
I think the Polaroid engineers know something we don’t.
January 14, 2008 – 5:20 am
both technology and veronica belmont make me happy