The Prynt phone case (Credit: Prynt/Kickstarter)
The Prynt case allows users to take pictures and print them, much like a Polaroid camera.
The Star reported on the Prynt phone case, which is currently listed on crowdfunding website Kickstarter here, and which allows users to turn their Apple or Google smartphone into a “Polaroid-like device” via a photograph printer installed in the case.
The case works by a phone being inserted and connected to the case – functioning like a dock – and the battery-powered printer uses ink-embedded paper to print images taken using the phone. Each case holds 10 sheets of paper “and can be refilled”, with the case “automatically record[ing] a short video every time you pose for a photo”, which is then displayed when the hard copy print of the photograph is held under the phone’s camera.
The case allows for “snap-and-print” or hard copy prints of images already stored on your phone, and can “be easily switched in case you change your phone model at any point”, with different variants on the cases manufactured. The Star refers to the Prynt case as the “first camera case for iPhone and Android”, and notes that it has already reached over 1,800 percent of its original funding goal on Kickstarter – with the cases expected to ship in July, and pledges starting from $49 (€42).