{"id":329,"date":"2012-01-11T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2012-01-11T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:49:53","slug":"whats-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s old is new again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s an old name that you may have thought had disappeared like Philco and Packard Bell in the tech field, it&#8217;s got to be Polaroid. Remember the heady smell of the pink chemical stabilizer stick of the early models? Even better than a piece of freshly mimeographed paper! Ahhhh, brings back childhood memories.\u00a0 Well despite the best efforts of the digital revolution to kill off Edwin Land&#8217;s instant picture camera, it still exists, albeit in a rather odd form. It combines a 14mp camera and a printer, <em>all in the same device<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_2168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-330\" title=\"IMG_2168\" src=\"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_2168-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_2168-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_2168-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a>Yes, it&#8217;s a little heavy. And I was scared to ask how much the special paper cost.\u00a0 (Polaroid pictures were never cheap, you paid the big bucks for instant gratification)<\/p>\n<p>I can already hear squeals of delight from the tech illiterate insurance claims adjusters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s an old name that you may have thought had disappeared like Philco and Packard Bell in the tech field, it&#8217;s got to be Polaroid. Remember the heady smell of the pink chemical stabilizer stick of the early models? Even better than a piece of freshly mimeographed paper! Ahhhh, brings back childhood memories.\u00a0 Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}