Comments on: Little Printer can now be pre-ordered

By: Nagurski

Nagurski — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:30:00 +0000

penguinchris>Tesla>Edison

By: ssiess

ssiess — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:48:00 +0000

Why? Why? Why? So wasteful, expensive, pointless, wasteful.

By: Laura Barnard

Laura Barnard — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:32:00 +0000

I’d love something like this for printing airline tickets, shopping lists, etc. The kind of thing you need paper for anyway, but saves you having to have a huge printer on your desk just to print occasional text things.

By: LaGrange

LaGrange — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:43:00 +0000

To add to many other comments about what a kind of a pointless show-off gadget that costs as much as a basic workable tablet computer, this doesn’t even maintain what at least I consider the primary benefits of print newspapers.

It’s not about the unique feeling of the paper (though, geez, thermal?). It’s about the format itself. Most of what you’ll get on the net is articles each on their own unique pages. In a newspaper, you can put two articles on the same general issue side-by-site, letting things like “representing different views” actually work. You can also add a commentary from the newspaper essayist below those two (representing the view of the newspaper itself, or at least of the essayist), and a small box with some basic related fact. But this takes a lot of space, and is rather hard to pull off in a “customized” medium. There is some chance of this working on tables and laptops, but no way it would happen on an RSS ticker the size of receipt tape and.

By: ffabian

ffabian — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:25:00 +0000

Woot does not ship outside the US. ;-(

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:02:00 +0000

Awful on so many levels.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:25:00 +0000

An idiot with £199 to spare.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:29:00 +0000

Solution: mount this printer on a watch. It prints out the time when you press the button.

By: killer_spam_robot

killer_spam_robot — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:53:00 +0000

There’s a point at which a gadget turns from something fun and interesting into a pointless piece of trash, and it’s all about price. This is the “luxury goods” version of a receipt printer. A hobbyist may buy a receipt printer to do something fun with it, but the market for this seems to be limited to rich dudes with more money than sense. At least it’s not another fucking watch.

By: R. Stevens

R. Stevens — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:47:00 +0000

I think it’s an awesome concept. It’s vinyl records for blogging. It’s comics that come pre-clipped for your refrigerator. I’m sure it’ll get cheaper.

By: semiotix

semiotix — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:47:00 +0000

Jeez, no need to be a Nazi about it.

By: Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:40:00 +0000

The comments on the older post are closed, but several of them make me want to post this in reply. So I will do it here: http://www.richardvalentin.com/news-cycle/

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:30:00 +0000

PC Load Receipt! WTF is PC Load Receipt!?!?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:51:00 +0000

Duh.

By: First Last

First Last — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:03:00 +0000

Stickler for details – the hair is parted to the wrong side.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:59:00 +0000

I guess you don’t like the cornbread either.

By: bolivar13

bolivar13 — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:25:00 +0000

I bet the cost could be offset by using it to print your own parking receipts in Chicago. ~$300 would take maybe a couple of months with the ridiculous prices we get charged.

By: jclor

jclor — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:17:00 +0000

All that paper and electricity we’ve been saving with recycling has to be used on something, I suppose.

Wait—actually, it doesn’t.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:45:00 +0000

I tried loading mine with 8-1/2 x 11, but it broked.

By: Youkai

Youkai — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Don’t worry, it will be on Woot for 49 bucks within a year.

By: BillGlover

BillGlover — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Now if this could print on bacon I might see the point. I could have bacon tweets with my news on toast.

By: Warren_Terra

Warren_Terra — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:23:00 +0000

This waste of space, money, and paper would have been an insanely dumb idea fifteen years ago, when people started getting “digital picture frames” plugged into the wall and halfway readable LCD screens in their pockets for far less than this abomination is priced at. It would have been mind-boggingly, inconceivably stupid five years ago, when for a fraction of the cost of this printer you could get a phone with a genuinely large, readable screen, and tablets were just coming to the popular mass market. Now, it’s become some sort of post-stupid: it now so thoroughly defies the very concept of rational assessment that the only appropriate responses are scatological or consist entirely of whimsical non-sequiturs. The market for this abomination consists entirely of the terminally hip, the clinically insane, and people who collect doomed gadgets.

By: C W

C W — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:20:00 +0000

Because there’s actually a market for people who would actually pay 200 pounds to read printed tweets, and they have a lot of money to burn.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:09:00 +0000

I can’t figure out the purpose of this thing. A 21st century ticker-tape for RSS feeds and tweets? Why???

By: ffabian

ffabian — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:03:00 +0000

I liked the idea after reading about Little printer a few month ago and waited for the pre-order but the price is a joke. I didn’t expect to get it for cheap (Berg is a design studio after all) but this is three times the amount I was willing to pay.

EDIT:
Just found this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1953425088/mprinter-an-analog-printer-for-a-digital-world

Same thing for 80-100$

By: whisper dog

whisper dog — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:58:00 +0000

What bow colours are available? Do you accept Paypal?

By: jacklaughing

jacklaughing — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:38:00 +0000

I thought part of the value of the internet was in not wasting paper. I understand that the electricity simply to operate a computer is in itself not green, but this ridiculous toy seems like the kind of thing you give a Mitt Romney for his birthday. “Here, Mr guy with everything, an overpriced pointless toy that allows you to continue destroying the environment while reading the NYSE updates!”

By: The Turtle 

The Turtle  — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:59:00 +0000

Why?

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:53:00 +0000

Folks, it’s not 200 dollars, it’s 200 pounds. That’s over 300 dollars. To even suggest buying this trivial toy for that amount of money is a joke. If you’ve got that kind of money to throw away you might consider finding a good charity.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:39:00 +0000

I think this is amazing, but in the wrong decade. Just seems so wasteful for a novelty, even if it is a neat idea.