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Calibur
02-06-2007, 11:55 AM
Why carry around an Ipod when you can rock this snazzy looking printer:

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7980/cam01hr270x180io0.th.jpg (http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cam01hr270x180io0.jpg)

Zink wants to take the printer off of your desk and put it in your pocket. The question now is whether you'll want it.

The Waltham, Mass.-based start-up has created--with help from Polaroid--a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge. Without an ink cartridge, the printer can be reduced to the size of an iPod or smaller, CEO Wendy Caswell says. The controlling factor when it comes to printer size is whether you want 2x3 pictures or 4x6 prints.

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The trick is the paper. In conventional machines, print heads squirt ink in a meticulous pattern onto a sheet of paper, which gets affixed through heat or other means.




learn more (http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9682333-1.html?tag=permalink)

Zenox
02-06-2007, 12:09 PM
It looks nice but not to much practical, i can't find much uses for it.

GrassDragon
02-06-2007, 12:34 PM
I love this comment:

"A camera with a built in printer? Gee, in the 50's we used to call that a Polaroid!"

Darmago
02-06-2007, 1:38 PM
Rather have my music thanks, a pocket printer seems a little impractical.

Black.Ice
02-06-2007, 5:39 PM
Yeah, especially when you have to use special paper. If it were, say... on any paper that'd be more interesting.

The_Maker
02-07-2007, 11:42 AM
Who would want to even LOOK at something that small? No thanks, I'll take my MP3 or some other nifty doodad over that ANY day.

Calibur
02-07-2007, 2:05 PM
Who would want to even LOOK at something that small?

Something a guy never wants to hear his girlfriend say.

Note to self: DO NOT!!!! invest in hand held printer stocks.

Protosschick99
02-07-2007, 6:41 PM
I dunno if that'll sell. What can it be used for? Mostly scrap booking probably :P