Tag archive: Xiao

Now that Polaroid cameras have all but disappeared from store shelves, film for them has reached the price of dirt in Waterworld, and digital quality makes their prints look downright awful, what’s the instant photo lover to do? Grab a TakaraTomy Xiao, of course. Much like the Polaroid PoGo printer we looked at back in June, the Xiao uses zero ink technology, or Zink, which produces photos from dye crystals embedded in paper. Quite unlike the… Read More

A 22-year-old Chinese man, Xiao Jinpeng, was killed when the battery in his Motorola cell phone exploded.   The death happened on June 19, and Motorola isworking with Chinese authorities to determine what caused the explosion.   According to reports, the phone was in Xiao’s chest pocket, and had been exposed to high temperatures before theexplosion. Xiao died when rib fragments pierced his heart.   This isn’t the first… Read More