The launch of Google Gemini’s latest photo editing capabilities, codenamed Nano Bananas, has sparked a number of trends, from the AI action figure to generating time travel images of your younger self alongside your current self. One of the AI’s trendy capabilities? The ability to generate a Polaroid-like image.
But turning a smartphone snapshot into something that looks like instant film isn’t something that’s only newly possible with advancements in AI image generators. One of my favorite affordable photo accessories is actually a mobile printer that converts digital photographs into real instant film, not ink on paper, but real instant film that I can watch develop just as if the image was spit out of a camera.
