Polaroid is back ― and printing photos with 'zero ink'

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Polaroid seems to be getting stranger by the day.

The once king of instant photos died a slow death at the hands of the digital- photography revolution, but it has since been resurrected. Polaroid's latest creation is a strange mix of obsolescence and futurism: An instant camera that prints physical photos, but does so without using a single drop of ink.

The Polaroid Snap is a slim white rectangle with rounded edges, like something you’d see in an '80s sci-fi movie where the vision of the future is curvy and milky white.

It captures photos at 10 megapixels, saves a digital version to your SD card, and then prints out a 3-inch by 2-inch paper version on its fancy “ZINK” zero-ink photo paper.

ZINK paper is actually a multilayer material comprised of colored-dye crystals stacked on top of a base layer.

The transparent crystals are invisible at first, but colorful once activated. When you snap a photo, the printer heats the crystals to render the image without using ink.

The resulting photos are smudge proof, water resistant, and also won't tear easily, which makes the camera a solid bet for kids.?

The Snap is like a somewhat watered-down version of Polaroid’s Z2300 instant digital camera, doing away with the video recording and LCD screen and focusing instead on rekindling the photo-printing magic that the company became famous for.

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