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iPhone becomes an instant photo printer in this concept design

by Kelly Hodgkins May 4th 2011 at 11:00AM

Freelance designer Mac Funamizu worked his creative magic and developed a concept iPhone dock that merges the best of the iPhone with the technology of yore. Funamizu conceptualized a classic iPhone dock that lets iPhone owners print instant pictures Land Camera-style. The Polaroid-inspired design prints up a colored image on photo paper with a QR code that links to a third-party website like Flickr or Photobucket. If you geo-tagged the photo, you can even add a map to the freshly printed image. This is a lovely concept for fans of the iconic Polaroid Land camera, but sadly, it may never land on retail shelves. For more pictures of this concept design, point your browser to Funamizu's website.

[Via Yankodesign]



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Craig Stanton

If you're just going to draw pictures of gadgets and assign magic powers to them without the ability to actually make them, why not draw and iPhone and say it has a printer built in. Or draw a 'concept' jet pack, or a hoverboard, or a time-machine.

May 05 2011 at 5:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
samw40

That's one huge camera.

May 04 2011 at 4:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Sciuto

This is a good opportunity for ZINK Imaging, but for some reason they don't support the iPhone in their products which is a large oversight that I've been pointing out to them for years and should partner with Apple solve any issues. Seems like good business to produce a product for the phone that has changed the whole industry and that all others are judged by you think?

I worked for Polaroid before ZINK spun off into it's own company and have worked with the engineers and scientist of this product. ZINK paper contains transparent Cyan,Yellow, and Magenta crystals that bloom with certain heat frequencies to produce a color photo, no need for ink cartridges and the paper/crystal chemistry is non toxic and eco friendly.

May 04 2011 at 11:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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chris

It's not Zink, exactly - it's Apple. The Zink uses the Bluetooth file transfer protocol, and it works great with a million different phones and cameras and computers. But Apple doesn't have it on iOS, so there is nothing Zink can do, other than beg Apple (which they have- there's even a page on their site telling you how to contact Apple and beg along with them) or rebuild their entire product line they are simply out of luck.

For a while you could use iBluetooth on a jailbroken iPhone, but it is gone from Cydia now.

May 04 2011 at 5:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Sciuto

Yes Chris, I've heard that they have had that problem with the Bluetooth protocol being locked down in certain ways. I was hoping the AirPrint technology (which obviously needs WiFi connection) would eventually resolve that or having a direct connection via the 30pin connector like this idea of a slide on printer. Hopefully it will get there somehow other than jail-breaking. ZINK is cool stuff!

May 05 2011 at 7:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
L3

Yore is right. Is there a way to convert my iPhone texts to Morse code?

May 04 2011 at 11:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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