Review: Lifeprint's Harry Potter Printer Lets You Print Photos That Come to Life Using Augmented Reality

[MacRumors]

Lifeprint recently came out with its newest product, the Harry Potter Magic Photo and Video Printer, a Harry Potter-themed version of its standard Lifeprint photo printer that connects to the iPhone.

The Harry Potter version of the Lifeprint printer is identical in function to the regular Lifeprint printer options, but it has a unique Harry Potter design and the branding is a clever way to highlight the Lifeprint's augmented reality capabilities.

In the Harry Potter universe, photographs are animated rather than still, something that Lifeprint mimics through an augmented reality app that can play videos or Live Photos in the Lifeprint app when a photo printed with a Lifeprint printer is scanned.

Design

Functionally, the Harry Potter printer is similar in design and shape to the standard Lifeprint printer. Like all Lifeprint printers, it is a ZINK printer which means it uses ZINK paper with no need to bother with printer cartridges and other hassles.

The Harry Potter printer is rectangular in shape and is thicker and wider than an iPhone, but still portable enough to easily tuck into a bag or backpack. It measures in at about 4.7 inches long, just under an inch thick, and three inches wide.

You can get the printer in either black and gold or black and white, with both options decorated with a Hogwarts crest on the front. The crest isn't as ornate as it is in the Harry Potter movies, but it features the four houses, an outline of the castle, and the Hogwarts motto, "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus" which means Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon.

The printer itself is made from a gold plastic with a textured top plate where the Hogwarts branding is emblazoned. Below the Hogwarts crest, there's a circular spot where you can add a house crest. The printer ships with four circular crests for Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw.


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[macduke]

So $150 to watch Live Photos not on my iPhone with my iPhone? Hard pass.

 

[Mikey44]

I remember when this first was a thing, and my thought was first Harry Potter. Glad that they were able to get the licensing for it, but I do think it’s a bit late for it.

 

[0947347]

Can, please, for love of us, somebody just create a simple app for iPad, which displays photo and uses front camera so when you move in front of it, it activates “live photo”?
It would be a still picture, but once you would come closer, it would start to move

 

[ericesque]

Seems like an extremely convoluted way to have no fun at all.

 

[honglong1976]

So it's basically a normal printer with an app?