Polaroid, the company who once brought us the famous instant camera, were hit hard by the coming of the digital era.  On July the 6th however they will fight back with a Pocket Sized Portable Inkless Printer called the PoGo.  A hot new gadget that can print via bluetooth or USB, making it compatible with the majority of cell phones on the market.

So how have they made a printer so small and work without ink?

Quite simply the pocket sized photo printer doesnt really print, it simply heats up special paper (Costing around $0.35 each) with special small heating heads.  This works quite cleverly to release colored dyes onto the paper.

The paper, while quite expensive is also sticky backed and fairly cheap compared to conventional printing.  The sticky backed photo quality provided by the pogo portable pocket printer will not just be useful for many people but also open up a whole world of mischief, take a photo, print it out and then stick it on an unsuspecting colleagues back.

The Pogo Pocket Printer is going to hit the markets on July 6th and will cost around $149 on release.  This still seems a little expensive for a printer that only prints wallet sized photos, so it may not take off as well as they hoped.  Fortunately many people like novelty, including your writers at Geekywood, and one of these is definitely on the menu, after all if us gadget geeks didn’t buy something like this who would?!