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How The Impossible Project Gave Polaroid Cameras A New Lease On Life

· March 12, 2013 ·

advertisement advertisement advertisement Editor's Note: This story contains one of our 10 Best Business Lessons of 2013. For the full list, click here . advertisement advertisement Edwin Land, an inventor and the cofounder of Polaroid, once said, "Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible." It's a particularly fitting mission statement for The Impossible Project , a company whose goal was to reinvent instant film based on materials that no longer existed for a product that was no longer on the market. "When we started, it was literally impossible to make instant film for Polaroid cameras," says Dave Bias, vice president of Impossible America. "All the infrastructure, factories, and distribution systems had been dismantled by Polaroid, and we had nothing but one factory where all the final assembly took place." advertisement advertisement Polaroid cameras–even (or especially) in the age of Instagram and snapshot-enabling smartphones–have a passionate cult following; the Impossible Project estimates there are around 300 million still in circulation. But in 2008, Polaroid announced it was terminating production of instant film, without which the cameras would become nothing more than bookshelf eye candy. Enter analog-camera aficionado Florian Kaps and André Bosman, the Polaroid employee the… Read full this story

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