Polaroid Pogo

If you’re still lamenting the passing of the old Polaroid point-and-shoot instant camera—that legendary artifact of a bygone time when cameras spit out a hard copy of a photo that materialized before your eyes while you watched—then you are in luck. Polaroid has announced a new shoot-and-print option for 2009: The Pogo Instant Digital Camera. The camera uses Polaroid’s Zink (zero ink) 2-by-3-inch paper. You insert a deck of 10 sheets after the LCD pops up, shoot something you want to print, hit the ’Print’ button on back, pick the photo, and then finally, press OK. In less than a minute the Pogo spits out a hard copy photo. One drawback: There’s no optical zoom on this boxy, rather large digital camera (but there is a 4x digital zoom).

With 7 megapixels available, the print quality is just OK, nothing special, but that’s not the point. Boomers who recall the original will be dazzled. No price has yet been announced for the Pogo, but estimates are in the $200 range. Expect lots of these babies under the 2009 Christmas tree, especially for the over-40 nostalgia crowd.

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