Just think! You could print a newspaper in the same size and format as your cel phone screen!
Again, one of those times I don’t ‘get it”. We’ve had these sort of receipt printers in libraries, restaurants and taxis for years.
Little Printer publishes tiny personal newspapers
http://kottke.org/11/11/little-printer-publishes-tiny-personal-newspapers
“BERG have announced an intriguing pair of products: Little Printer and BERG Cloud.
Little Printer lives in your front room and scours the Web on your behalf, assembling the content you care about into designed deliveries a couple of times a day.
You configure Little Printer from your phone, and there’s some great content to choose from – it’s what Little Printer delivers that makes it really special. We have an incredible group of launch partners, and in the run-up to shipping we’re working with them all on custom publications.
Underlying Little Printer is our new technology for connecting and controlling wireless products in the home, and we call it BERG Cloud.
We think of BERG Cloud as the nervous system for connected products. It’s built to run at scale, and could as easily operate the Web-enabled signage of a city block, as the playful home electronics of the future.
Here’s a short video of Little Printer in action:”
Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.
Um, I get that e-readers enlarge the text for old eyes like mine. Why would I want this?
I’d see more use as a smartphone app that printed toilet paper for those embarrassing times when the stall has run out.
Stephen
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Never underestimate the appeal of an adorable, anthropomorphized gadget. I see this catching on with either teenaged girls or 30-something ironic hipsters. Also… there’s this from The Onion: New Apple CEO Tim Cook: “I’m Thinking Printers”.