So I’ve checked all my credit and bank accounts and there is no unusual activity.  Nobody has charged anything to me on any of my accounts, and nobody has opened any new accounts in my name according to the credit reporting agencies.  So…I’m stumped.  If this is a gift I think I’d have heard something about it from the giver by now.  I can’t imagine why some company would have wanted to just send me one of these.

It’s a Polaroid Pogo.  A pocket sized photo printer that uses a paper with the ink already embedded in it…so you don’t have to deal with ink cartridges.   It takes a Bluetooth connection for printing from a cell phone camera, or a USB connection for printing directly from a PictBridge enabled digital camera.  I guess it’s Polaroid’s attempt to stay in the game in a digital world.  Supposedly the paper has a mild adhesive backing for sticking prints you make from it on walls or things.  Looks from the marketing campaign like it’s being mostly marketed toward teens as a kind of fun thing to take along and share prints with your friends with.  The prints aren’t very big…just 2×3"…but I can see where kids might have some fun with it.  But it’s a tad pricey for them, both for the device and expecially for the special ink embedded paper.

I could see taking it along with me on trips…and maybe to some special occassions.  But not carrying it with me everywhere.  What is more, it’s not compatible with my iPhone, though that’s not necessarily a long term problem.  It’s compatible with Palm devices apparently…and I am in the process of making slow defection back to Palmland.  More on that in some other post…

Anyway…I’m still very much stumped as to why I got this.  I’m going to leave it in the box for now, until I get it figured out.