The Coolest iPhone Photography Accessory You've Ever Seen.

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I'm sure it is a parody? Photo printers have been around for a while...

Yeah but it's not authentic man

I think that the distinction is that this is a fully analog photo printer using the old (and beloved) Polaroid instant printing technology instead of the more mechanically complex inkjet approach.

Cute, but not really revolutionary.

Never had a photo printer, but I don't think they were inkjets. They produced "prints" that looked like photos (the same material). Actually not sure if photo printers are still commonly being sold, though - last I checked was a couple of years ago.

Where I live you can create such prints on the fly in every drugstore. They all have photo printing machines.

I watched the Kickstarter video and I have to say, I feel like I'm being trolled in the most epic fashion.

... is this a joke?

No offense to the kickstarter project, but I'd much rather see a device that I could just send photos to wirelesslessly and have some form of digital-analog conversion done to print it...having to dock the iPhone into this unweildy looking device is ______. I can't belive how much funding this has raised. I guess I don't "get it"

Why is this even on the front page?

Because it is a pretty cool project? Linking directly to the Kickstarter would have been more useful though: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impossible/impossible-in...

"Well … we invented it."

I hate this kind of faux 'Apple-sque' marketing. These printers have existed for long and there's nothing new about them. Its just not authentic.

Basically, this contraption seems to take a photo of the iPhone screen and prints that out like a Polaroid. That's basically it. All I can think is, "wtf".

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