Imagine, If You Will, a Digital Land Camera (or Something Like That)
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:
Watch a demo of the ZINK “on the go” printer on Engadget. Does technology make anyone else sad?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 2x3" 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.