Instagram Socialmatic Camera: Photo-Sharing App Comes To Life With Awesome Polaroid Device (PHOTOS)

Instagram just got real.

ADR Studio's Antonio De Rosa, the Italian designer behind the stunning iPhone 5 mockup released in March, has created yet another concept design, this time of a real-life Instagram camera modelled after the app's icon.

According to a May 5 post on ADR Studio's site, this Instagram concept camera offers 16GB of storage, a touchscreen display, optical zoom and WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities.

But what really makes this concept cool are the features that bring the social part of Instagram to life. With its two lenses, one for main capture and another for 3D fliters, webcam applications and QR code-capturing, you can snap and edit pics the way you would using the Instagram app and then post them straight to Facebook.

Alternatively, you can print them out, Polaroid-style, using the camera's internal printer; each picture pops out with your Instagram username, a QR code that other Instagrammers can scan if they want to follow you, a glue strip so you can "post" your pics where you want and a space to write a comment.

"I've thought about the possibility to translate in the real life the social power of Instagram and Facebook together, with some 'physical' features, like image printing," wrote De Rosa in an email to The Huffington Post.

The Instagram Socialmatic Camera is just a concept for now, but it seems De Rosa is raising money to turn it into a reality; he's posted the Socialmatic Camera as a project on money-raising platform Indiegogo.

Flip through the slideshow below for a few pics of this cool Instagram camera concept -- you can view even more of them on De Rosa's website. Then make sure to check out his iPhone 5 design. What do you think of this Instagram Socialmatic Camera? Share your thoughts with us in the comments! (For more Instagram fun, take a look at our gallery of 19 stunning Instagram accounts to follow.)

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Comments

[teamtymarie]

07:07 PM on 08/11/2012

Omgaaaaa i cant wait for its release date ! like honestly i am madly addicted to instagram !!!!!!!!!!! so having this instagram designed themed camera just expands my obsession! so yayayayayayayaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

[tim in phuket]

06:49 AM on 07/19/2012

I would certainly have a think about it BUT would it be too expensive? - definitely cool though (apps good as well)

[cuteanduseful]

07:27 PM on 05/15/2012

Oh, I definitely think it's very cool. Of course you want to be able to upload to your Instagram account and twitter from it, why not? Will it jusy work over WiFi or maybe tether to your phone's signal somehow? Especially love the ability to print one up, QR code included, write a note on it, and post it...on the metro, at a bus stop, on someone's desk...very, extremely cool.

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[dominicc]

12:56 PM on 05/15/2012

it's not a Polaroid and it never will be.

[Adil Siddique]

02:17 AM on 05/15/2012

Check This Out Guy's! http://www.techbread.net/2012/05/real-life-instagram-camera.html

[gotch]

02:01 PM on 05/11/2012

It looks like a fun gadget that youngsters would die to have.

[Elizabethanm]

01:20 AM on 05/11/2012

It's an awesome idea. I'd totally buy it.

[PortoBelLo]

08:28 PM on 05/10/2012

It's got a lot of features for a butt ugly camera.

[Djjeffe]

06:06 PM on 05/10/2012

I still don't get the instagram thing. I know it has its own little social network attached to it which is kinda cool I guess. Its my understanding that it allows you to post photos to other sharing sites more easily because the iphone's native sharing capability is limited to email and twitter. I have owned a few Android devices and every one has had the ability to share photos to many different social sites, and, apply filters... Like I said, I don't get it! Judging my how many iphone users were upset that it was made available for Android tells me it is an elitist club, a passing fad

[Christopher Buczkowski]

11:15 PM on 05/10/2012

sharing to any other application is just as easy on an iPhone. maybe it's just because I generally prefer being in whichever app I'm going to post to, but it's plenty easy to upload to Facebook, for example. that's not why people use Instagram (although it does make it easy to post to a bunch of different places all at once). it's just a fun app to use. I actually take a lot of pictures with my DSLR and put them onto my phone so I can upload to Instagram. the social aspect is why it's so enjoyable. I don't expect you to like it (or even to "get" it), but making it into an iPhone vs. Android thing seems a bit strange to me for a comment that's supposed to be about the app.

[margamoureux]

05:49 PM on 05/10/2012

What's a fliter?

[teamtymarie]

07:09 PM on 08/11/2012

a photo effect

[wjhamilton29464]

02:32 PM on 05/10/2012

Looks 1974 to me.

[Lechiffre]

03:55 PM on 05/10/2012

Dem piccies look 1974 too.

[Jason Fields]

02:25 PM on 05/10/2012

Very cool...

[agreen87]

11:50 AM on 05/10/2012

LOVE IT...I would definitely buy it!

[Lechiffre]

03:55 PM on 05/10/2012

as long at has no "sharing" capabilities i'll buy it too. I don't want web sharing on physical items.