HAPPY SNAPSFlash and Forget
Technology is fast making the camera the most dispensable part of photography. Witness PopShots, Polaroid’s instant “one-time use” camera. It packs a magazine of 10 slightly slimmed-down prints. And this camera won’t weigh down a traveler’s backpack because the designers left off the usual battery pack and provided a manual pull ring for extracting the prints. The conscientious tourist doesn’t even have to feel guilty throwing way such an engineering marvel after, say, photographing a Mexican squatter camp. Mail it back to Polaroid in the prepaid pouch, and the company will recycle parts of the spent carcass and give the sender a $2 coupon toward the next $20 PopShots.
