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:

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.
Watch a demo of the ZINK “on the go” printer on Engadget. Does technology make anyone else sad?