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I look at this and I get an itchy feeling in my fingers that the next tech bubble bust is now less than 12 months away. It's deja vu all over again ... Anyone else remember the CueCat, back in the heady days of 1999? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000037.html (I think people with wireless internet connections at home and an iOS/Android device to select stories on are going to read the news on their tab…
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That's like saying Chumby is going to be a failure because PointCast was a bomb. Aggregating all this social data into new and interesting forms is going to be a big deal, in my opinion. Look at Flipboard. That's an amazing program. Would some people like to have their Flipboard printed and handed to them over morning coffee? I would. Is it practical, considering the iPad can also sit next to you at breakfast? Not re…
It's a razor model. The handle is free, but you pay for the blades. In this case, the blades are the (non-standard width, thermal) paper. Meanwhile it doesn't give the user anything useful that they can't already read on their smartphone, does it? So what is it for ? It's not a substitute for the existing multifunction printer. It's an inferior substitute to the existing RSS reader or equivalent. There's no value pro…
I could see companies giving these away to employees for free, just so we can get closer to the Corbin Dallas universe:
There's a nice writeup here which gives an idea of some of the uses Berg envision for this: sticking things up on the fridge, giving to friends, carrying with you for instant reference without having to wait for an app to load. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665514/a-newspaper-for-the-twit... I can also imagine it being useful to carry backup info (appointments, addresses, travel details and codes etc) just in case you…
Tom Taylor's Microprinter was a sort of prototype for the ideas therein: http://tomtaylor.co.uk/projects/microprinter
Hopefully they will have some sort of API to go along with it.
(...Sorry about the snark. The product actually looks pretty fun. It's just that use example shown on the landing page isn't necessarily the best.)
How about this: Connect it to a live stock market data feed and have it continuously print out stock prices as trades occur.
If this product succeeds, it will be through tapping that cultural association with a world of flying cars and other high-tech impracticalities.