London-based design studio BERG has developed little printer, a compact, inkless, thermal printer which can produce receipt-sized miniature newspapers, notes, or images directly from a cellular device.
Through the custom-designed BERG cloud program, the printer connects with wireless to many smartphones without any configuration. You can print files in high quality glossy paper.
BergCloud has concluded agreements with ARUP, Foursquare, Google, The Guardian and Nike to facilitate the choice of contents to print. Users can also set and manage subscriptions for the device, so that data is automatically printed at pre specified times of day.
The choice of paper in combination with the social media is very interesting: the paper is no more part of the past and the non-stop updates of the printable feeds makes it actual and shareable also with the classic showcase.
In the WWW age we often forget the real function of the social media, the sharing, the ideas exchange (and pieces of paper also), the physical contact.
We are very curious about this little printer! We will know more when Berg will announce the price.
Little Printer will be available in 2012.
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