Polaroid in its time was what Apple is to ours: the most interesting high tech company on earth. It filled a niche all its own one that nobody else intruded upon until the very end & nearly all its brilliance came from the head of its genius founder a man names Edwin Herbert L&. There are four stories in here: the invention of a one of a kind technology the creation of a medium that many artists embraced & loved the story of a pop culture artifact that virtually everyone recognizes & a cautionary business tale about high tech companies that lose their inventive edge. This book tells the remarkable history of Polaroid which became hugely successful soon after it brought the first instant print camera to market in 1948. Over the next six decades Polaroid cameras became utterly familiar & they became more functional & more elegant with each new camera model. With the rise of digital cameras however the company went bankrupt & in 2008 announced that Polaroid pictures were a thing of the past. A few months later a group of enthusiasts founded the Impossible Project dedicated to bring back Polaroid film which returned the product to the market by mid 2010.