(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
What I love about design is that it can push you towards new, innovative digital experiences, and then pull you right back into the physical world for something that you’d never really consider…
Say hello to “Little Printer” a new, tiny, cloud based physical printer that can sit in your office or bedside table to print out snippets of information on demand, almost like a mini newspaper!
Think of the “Little Printer” like a thermal receipt printer, only this one connects to an iPhone app where you can customise your feed and get news, puzzles and the latest updates from all your friends, printed out as a mini newspaper feed. You can get yours in 2012… Who’s in? I am!
BERG have team up with The Guardian, Nike, Foursquare and Google for content so far! Love it.
ridiculous gadget
[...] pull you right back into the physical world for something that you’d never really consider… read more [...]
Loved the concept, design and execution.
However I wonder whether this device gives due justice to the idea of environment friendly. when the world needs to move towards gadget(s) that decrease the use of papers, will this fit the space?
And why would we take a print of something that’s going to be in dustbin after a day ! Same information is anyways available on your smartphone !
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Hmmm.. it’s the 21st Century incarnation of the ubiquitous 19th Century Tickertape machine! Move over Citizen Kane, this citizen journalist wants one!
Oooh it does look like a ticker tape machine…I can imagine reading the printouts while sipping some brandy and wearing a monocle.
“Oh it appears that Shannon is eating a sandwich….quite, quite.”
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