Polaroid PoGo Pocket-Size Printer

By Nick Mokey
June 19th, 2008

To no one’s surprise, the mainstream arrival of digital cameras over a decade ago decimated Polaroid’s business by taking the company’s main attraction – instant photos – and eliminating the need for the film. But unlike the famous white-rimmed squares that could be traded from person-to-person, pinned up on corkboards, and squirreled away for posterity, their digital replacements lacked any real substance outside fleeting glimpses on a screen.

Polaroid hopes to remedy this problem with its new PoGo instant printer, the first mobile printer truly small enough to slip into a pocket. By connecting to compatible cell phones and cameras, the PoGo liberates digital photos from cramped LCD screens and puts them on paper, on the spot, the same way Polaroid’s original instant cameras did as far back as 1948.

Unlike the current generation of “portable” printers that might be luggable from desk-t0- desk or stowed away in a backpack, the PoGo’s ...

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