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| Edwin Land © Michael Cardinali; courtesy MIT Museum |
For many years, our block was
the place to go trick-or-treating. We'd get about 200 kids, most of them from outside our area. One of the treats they all looked forward to (maybe the parents more than the children!) was the one given out by the couple across the street: They took a Polaroid picture of each child to give him or her, and there was always a gaggle of them standing on the sidewalk below their garage light, oohing, aahing, and laughing as the pictures developed. (I still have one on our refrigerator.) What a special gift; what a great memory.
So before there was Steve Jobs, there was Edwin Land, the genius (and Harvard dropout ~ see " 'I Saw the World a Certain Way,' " Jan. 22!) behind that magical camera. An interview with the author of
Instant: The Story of Polaroid (video):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21115581
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