The Prynt Smartphone Case Can Print Your Digital Photos On-The-Spot

Forbes.com latest news ....The Prynt Smartphone Case Can Print Your Digital Photos On-The-Spot According to Amit Chowdhry, Contributor of Forbes The Polaroid cameras that print photos immediately after they were taken was popular instant film cameras launched in 1948 and remained on the market until 2008. It was nostalgic whenever to see a Polaroid because many grew up using the photo-printing cameras, a time before smartphones, Shutterfly SFLY -1.7%, Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and Instagram. France-based Prynt is helping bring back those memories by developing a smartphone case that can print photos.Read more about Prynt Smartphone Case at http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/11/28/the-prynt-smartphone-case-can-print-your-digital-photos-on-the-spot/ When you take a photo on your smartphone, the Prynt case lets you instantly print it. You can also print photos from your camera roll or social network accounts. Prynt is perfect for those of us that want to quickly frame a photo shortly after taking them — without having to worry about ordering copies online or printing them at a retail store. The photos take slightly less than a minute to print out, according to TechCrunch. Prynt’s current prototype holds one sheet of photo paper, but the goal is to launch a consumer version that supports up to 30 sheets with a print time of 30 seconds each when it launches next year. The photos in the smartphone are sent to Prynt case via Bluetooth. However, the final consumer version of Prynt will likely plug into the phone directly. Another interesting feature built into Prynt is based on augmented reality. If you record a video before clicking the shutter button for a photo, it can be played back from the photo as you hold it in front of the smartphone camera. Here is a screenshot of that feature:

Augmented reality feature built into Prynt / Credit: TechCrunch The Prynt prototype works with smartphones that have a 4-inch screen, but there are plans to launch a version that support larger screen devices like the iPhone 6 Plus and the Galaxy Note. Prynt’s app will be available for iOS and Android when it launches. Prynt is expected to start selling the device through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a price of about $99 each. Users will be able to order photo paper from the Prynt app for about 30 cents per sheet. The Kickstarter campaign is likely to start in January 2015. It is unknown when the Prynt device or its related accessories will actually start shipping. Here is a video demo of Prynt in action: