Posted by
michael
on from the color-by-numbers dept.
mszeto writes "For all those gadget lovers out there, here is a neat one. It's the worlds smallest printer[ed. note: no it isn't], and is Bluetooth enabled. Rub it over the page to print! Here are some more articlesabout it:"
Re:Michael, You Don't Know Shit...
by
whereiswaldo
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· Score: 4, Funny
<a href="link to smallest printer goes here">no it isn't</a>
Wouldn't have been too hard.
I still have my doubts...
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Funny
I bet I could still manage a paper jam.
cool idea
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Funny
Just take one of those mini RC cars, add an ink jet and a blue tooth interface and you could have a printer the size of matchbook.
It would be slow, but you could just set a piece of paper on a flat surface and have your laptop/pda "drive" the printer over the paper squirting out ink where needed.
Plus. if you needed a faster printer, imagine a beow... never mind
Next: the infinite distance printer!
by
fireboy1919
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· Score: 4, Funny
The principle of generating small amounts of finite printing by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) is now well understood - and such generators are probably going to be used to break the ice at parties by printing embarassing messages on the hostess's dress, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy. Many respectable physicists said that they aren't going to stand for this - partly because it is a debasement of science, but mostly because they don't get invited to those sort of parties. Another thing they won't stand is the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite distance printer needed to print mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they will probably announced that such a machine is virtually impossible.
-- Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
I've been using an item smaller than this printer to reproduce pictures on paper for years. I like to call it the Pen(TM).
I'm looking on getting a patent on the technology.
It can also use random movement technology to create the wonderful Squiggle(TM) effect.
Whipped Cream and Other Delights.
by
teamhasnoi
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· Score: 5, Funny
Combine this with a pda bacode scanner and you can print new barcodes at Walmart on the fly. Scan the crap model, put a blank label on the nice one,(still not illegal??) then print your new barcode. (ILLEGAL)
Good way to pick up chicks - wave your hand with the printer concealed in it over a bar napkin and hand her your magically appearing phone number and a dirty limerick (ok, no limerick)
Label everything you own - roomies will no longer be able to claim the beer/CD/toliet paper wasn't yours.
Print up fake parking tickets for random cars.
This would rock for labeling CDRs - I might actually do it with this thing.
Add mystery "ingredients" to grocery store items. "What the hell is lead sucrose doing in these hot dogs?"
Graffiti made easy! Free Mumia, Impeach Bush, Repeal the 1st Amendment - easy as a wave of your hand! No incriminating paint can or marker!
Print barcodes on unsuspecting foreheads - "Hold on, I think there's a bee in your hair..." - Just for fun. For now......
Add inappropriate menu items at your favorite resturant. "Baby Seal and Carrots?!! WAITER!!!"
Fake classifieds - "Dude, what's this about you selling the state's largest used children's undies collection? Your name, phone number and everything!!"
Hide small notes on the bathroom walls in strategic places - "If you can read this, you're poopin'"
Quick name tags for people - don't worry, it'll wash off!
Frankly, this thing is cool and sounds like fun - it may even be useful for labeling things, or handing out info. Of course, it will probably be priced too high for
most people who would actually use it. It will probably be good for manufacturing, labeling parts and other irregular things.
Just remember, you read it on K5.
Re:What's really be cool...
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darkov
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· Score: 5, Funny
Yeah, it would be cool until you discovered you had tattooed "Attempt to dereference a null pointer at 0x0F6F75E4" on yourself.
Such a device would be controlled by a robot arm, a la Starshit Troopers.
If the robot runs Windows, which is very popular in tattoo parlers, then you are more likely to get a 300 page raw postscript dump. If you are put under for the tattoo, or pass out from the pain, you will awake to have postscript covering your entire body.
At first this sounds bad, but you could sue M$ for enough money to buy the UNIX code and GPL it.
(Sorry if this turned into a rant, the printer at work dumped hundreds of pages of postscript onto expensive paper under the direction of a Windows XP system. My Debian iBook came to the rescue and reprinted it correctly.)
Anyways, postscript is cooler than a null pointer exception, especially if it's a poscript http server.
-- You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
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<a href="link to smallest printer goes here">no it isn't</a>
Wouldn't have been too hard.
I bet I could still manage a paper jam.
Just take one of those mini RC cars, add an ink jet and a blue tooth interface and you could have a printer the size of matchbook.
It would be slow, but you could just set a piece of paper on a flat surface and have your laptop/pda "drive" the printer over the paper squirting out ink where needed.
Plus. if you needed a faster printer, imagine a beow... never mind
The principle of generating small amounts of finite printing by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) is now well understood - and such generators are probably going to be used to break the ice at parties by printing embarassing messages on the hostess's dress, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they aren't going to stand for this - partly because it is a debasement of science, but mostly because they don't get invited to those sort of parties.
Another thing they won't stand is the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite distance printer needed to print mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they will probably announced that such a machine is virtually impossible.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Why let prior art stop you? Doesn't seem to bother any of the technology patent obstructionists, and your idea is much cooler than most of theirs.
: )
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
I've been using an item smaller than this printer to reproduce pictures on paper for years. I like to call it the Pen(TM). I'm looking on getting a patent on the technology. It can also use random movement technology to create the wonderful Squiggle(TM) effect.
Good way to pick up chicks - wave your hand with the printer concealed in it over a bar napkin and hand her your magically appearing phone number and a dirty limerick (ok, no limerick)
Label everything you own - roomies will no longer be able to claim the beer/CD/toliet paper wasn't yours.
Print up fake parking tickets for random cars.
This would rock for labeling CDRs - I might actually do it with this thing.
Add mystery "ingredients" to grocery store items. "What the hell is lead sucrose doing in these hot dogs?"
Graffiti made easy! Free Mumia, Impeach Bush, Repeal the 1st Amendment - easy as a wave of your hand! No incriminating paint can or marker!
Print barcodes on unsuspecting foreheads - "Hold on, I think there's a bee in your hair..." - Just for fun. For now......
Add inappropriate menu items at your favorite resturant. "Baby Seal and Carrots?!! WAITER!!!"
Fake classifieds - "Dude, what's this about you selling the state's largest used children's undies collection? Your name, phone number and everything!!"
Hide small notes on the bathroom walls in strategic places - "If you can read this, you're poopin'"
Quick name tags for people - don't worry, it'll wash off! Frankly, this thing is cool and sounds like fun - it may even be useful for labeling things, or handing out info. Of course, it will probably be priced too high for most people who would actually use it. It will probably be good for manufacturing, labeling parts and other irregular things.
Just remember, you read it on K5.
Yeah, it would be cool until you discovered you had tattooed "Attempt to dereference a null pointer at 0x0F6F75E4" on yourself.
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Such a device would be controlled by a robot arm, a la Starshit Troopers.
If the robot runs Windows, which is very popular in tattoo parlers, then you are more likely to get a 300 page raw postscript dump. If you are put under for the tattoo, or pass out from the pain, you will awake to have postscript covering your entire body.
At first this sounds bad, but you could sue M$ for enough money to buy the UNIX code and GPL it.
(Sorry if this turned into a rant, the printer at work dumped hundreds of pages of postscript onto expensive paper under the direction of a Windows XP system. My Debian iBook came to the rescue and reprinted it correctly.)
Anyways, postscript is cooler than a null pointer exception, especially if it's a poscript http server.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
=)
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