Polaroid Instant Printing Reincarnates Digitally

Less than a year after Polaroid wound down its iconic instant film operations, the company is back with a digital camera that spits out prints on the go. The aptly-named PoGo is a 5-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and a 3-inch LCD screen. Photos can be viewed, cropped, date stamped and given a variety of borders before printing in color to a 2-inch by 3-inch sheet of sticky-back paper. If you want to print the photos elsewhere, they can be downloaded from the camera or stored on an SD card. Polaroid claims “No Ink, No Hassles,” meaning there are no ink cartridges or ribbons to replace. Photos take about 40 seconds to print, and you can churn out about 20 of them before the battery runs out, but no word on whether you can shake the camera to speed up the process. Look for it in March for $199. [Polaroid]