by Susan Wilson
Polaroid asked for Lady GaGa’s help on some product designs and developed a pair of picture taking sunglasses. Oh sure, there were the average run of the mill items like a special thermal color printer and a digital camera that prints pictures, but the sunglass camera is the ultimate in unique fashion/photo wear.
Lady GaGa was named Polaroid’s Creative Director a year ago. Since then, she designed a series of products called the Grey Label line which includes the GL20 Camera Sunglasses, GL10 Instant Mobile Printer and GL30 Instant Digital Camera. The most intriguing of the three is of course, the GL20 Camera Sunglasses.
The GL20 will allow you to take pictures and videos with a camera embedded in the frame in the nose piece. Each lens over an eye contains an LCD screen so that you can display your pictures and videos instantly to those around you.
The arm of the sunglasses is also a USB drive. You can plug the arm into your computer, digital photo screen or other device to download and display them at a later date. You can also send the pictures via Bluetooth to a Bluetooth enabled printer like the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer. The GL10 will print up to 40 pictures per charge and 10 pictures per film cartridge.
The printer uses special ZINK technology and ZINK Photo Paper that has a gazillion tiny tiny ink dots that are activated by heat by the printer. This modern thermal paper uses many of the same principles as the old thermal printers but the color images last much longer.
Source: www.blorge.com
