[Nicholas Morganti] has just such a camera, a Polaroid Big Shot, a 1970s instant camera designed for portrait work, for which the Polaroid 100 film packs are sadly a distant memory. Leave it on ...

But by the end of the 1990s the development of advanced photosensitive polymers, by companies such as the Polaroid Corporation and Bell Labs, finally started to make holographic storage look feasible.

For a lot of people, these cameras have become synonymous with the company Polaroid. People call those little photographs that get printed Polaroids, just as people call tissues Kleenex.