Everyone is talking about the "cloud", but one company, Berg, is trying to put a happy face to the amorphous concept with the announcement of a technological throwback: a printer. The Little Printer is a wireless connected printing device designed to work less like a sheet-by-sheet household printer and more like a miniature printing press of Tweet-proportions, delivering bite-size daily subscriptions to content you want to receive from the cloud. News, puzzles, messages from friends, a word of the day, horoscopes, the weather report...all configured from your smartphone.
In your front room, Little Printer wirelessly connects (with no configuration) to a small box that plugs into your broadband router. It's this same box that will enable our other planned products in the BERG Cloud family. There's no PC required, your phone is your remote control. 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. Not to mention the smart product prototypes that we work with our clients on, in the other side of our design studio.
Right now, Berg and their BERG Cloud partners are Arup, foursquare, Google, the Guardian, and Nike, with pre-order email notification signup open for the planned 2012 launch of The Little Printer.
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I thought the whole point of having a smartphone was to not have to carry around paper.
If you need a reminder, wouldn't you just set a reminder on your phone? or just check the news on your phone?
Its cute, but seems like such a waste
Well I love the design, I love the idea of the printer and I can't wait to see what creative applications will be written for it.
i agree with the first comment. it's kinda pointless if you have a smartphone..but still a cute little idea. guess we'll find out how it does when it comes out next year..
One use I could think of is to print receipts for your customer if you charge their credit card via the iPhone. Craft fairs, shopping parties, farmers markets...that kind of thing. You can likely email the receipts but being that these vendors are in a temporary location with no brick and morter, your customers might like a hardcopy receipt. But...seems you have to plug this in to a broadband router? So that's a no go...
I agree cute but complete unnecessary.
Very cute, but I agree that it is impractical most of the time.
About the only time I could see using it would be to print off a Sudoku, as shown, and use it for the initial part of a flight before you can turn on your Kindle/MP3 player.
Printing receipts is the only useful thing I could think of as well.
It is very cute.
I saw this on Reddit earlier. The Redditors were not amused. I have to agree... It's cute, but that's about it. It seems like a step backward for anyone with a smartphone.
This is cute, there are small things that need to be printed out like post-its. The devices(smart phones) are not replacements for little notes and paper, they are other options and means for doing things. It would be great if you could make labels with this.
Like Jose and mauishopgirl, I think it's just a neat, repackaged receipt printer.
Could be very useful if they found a way to make it work without the router.
Neat but very wasteful...