{"id":1642,"date":"2008-03-17T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/17\/polaroids-entrepreneurial-legacy\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"polaroids-entrepreneurial-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/03\/17\/polaroids-entrepreneurial-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaroid&#8217;s entrepreneurial legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2053\">Boston Globe has a great article<\/a> about an offshoot of Polaroid called Zink Imaging that has made a portable, colour thermal printer. Along with the article, there is a great video showing it in action.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zink has the closest connections. As Polaroid was sliding into bankruptcy in 2001, the company was trying to figure out what to do with a printing technology it had developed that doesn&#8217;t rely on ink, but instead uses a patented type of crystal that changes color in response to heat. Paper coated with Zink&#8217;s crystals can produce full-color photos when exposed to just the right pulses of heat. The project was nearly killed as Polaroid stumbled through its bankruptcy proceedings, but Zink got a reprieve and was spun out as an independent company in 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has a great article about an offshoot of Polaroid called Zink Imaging that has made a portable, colour thermal printer. Along with the article, there is a great video showing it in action. Zink has the closest connections. As Polaroid was sliding into bankruptcy in 2001, the company was trying to figure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}