Instagram Camera Concept Lets You Share Photos in Meatspace

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Instagram could be headed for a meta implosion of ironic proportions. First there were cheap plastic cameras and Polaroids that people thought were cool, but seemed to take crappy photos, so they fell out of use and popularity. Then everyone had cameras on their phones but their photos looked really crappy. So Instagram made phone photos look intentionally crappy by emulating the photos of the old, cheap cameras.

Now we’re back where we started as Instagram could potentially be made into a camera itself.

At the moment it’s just an idea, but the Socialmatic camera proposes to turn the clocks back on the digital Instagram revolution by making a device that takes those cool, retro-looking photos and actually prints them on paper instantly.

“People want to feel more reality, I think we are going to be bored of total virtuality,” says project founder and Italian marketing consultant, Antonio De Rosa.

The Socialmatic is not De Rosa’s first product idea, and while it seems like a good one, it will be very difficult to pull off, even with funding. There are no real specs for how the hardware would work or how it would be built. For now it’s just a cool mock-up and an idea. De Rosa also wanted to make an iWatch and an iCam but says neither of those came to fruition.

(via wired)