A glimmer of good news about Polaroid in today's (May26, 2009)
New York Times. A handful of former Polaroid employees are trying to manufacture film in Holland. Meanwhile Fuji has a line of instant point and shoot cameras called the Instax, the mini 55i being the most interesting. It makes credit card size instant pictures. We saw people using these in China but so far they are not available directly in the USA. Check out
Lomography.com for more on the Instax.