Polaroid, schlmolaroid

Instant-pic simulator for your computer.

March 22, 2010 at 7:07PM

This story describes how crafty scientists in white coats toiling in a secret lab managed to reproduce the lost formula for Polaroid film. Personally, this is like someone saying they've duplicated Metrecal or Lark Cigarettes or some other 1960s icon, but some people love the stuff. If you don't want to wait for the film - and Polaroid is all about impatience, isn't it you can make Polaroid pictures right now, with an app called "Poladroid."

You actually have to shake the picture to develop it, but this doesn't mean you have to pick up your computer and wave it around.

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