This printer was shown at the GITEX show in Dubai, it is made from 24 carrot gold and is supposedly part of numerous gold and silver HP Laserjet P2015s. Its a perfectly working prototype and an auction was held with a starting price of $299 after the event.
After seeing this video, I can safely confirm that you can probably make anything with Lego. Well maybe not anything, but at least we know that it’s possible to build a printer from Lego.
This amazing project took a member member of the B3ta forums about three weeks to complete, and he’s basically used Lego and a felt tip to create a fully functioning (monochrome) printer. Take a look:
This is probably one of the funnest printers I’ve ever seen, just genius.
This excellent advertisement was made by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth in response to a D&AD Student Awards brief set by HP. The video was made with the concept of “Presenting an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive” and does indeed portray that idea.
Here’s a bit of an odd one, but cool none the less. The Cornucopia is a concept design for a personal food factory, sort of a 3D printer that prints food.
Made by Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran the cornucopia uses an array of food canisters that individually store and refigirate the ‘cooks’ chosen ingredients. Then these ingredients are piped into a mixer and extruder head that can accurately deposit elaborate combinations of food. The food is then heated or cooled by Cornucopia’s chamber or the heating and cooling tubes located on the printing head. This fabrication process not only allows for the creation of flavors and textures that would be completely unimaginable through other cooking techniques, but it also allows the user to have ultimate control over the origin, quality, nutritional value and taste of every meal.
Its seems like something from star-trek, but it would be great if they start making these things for real.
Here is a video of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer, a HP Scanjet 3c and an array of Hard Drives playing Big Ideas: Don’t get any a version of a song by Radiohead. The video is made by James Houston and It’s amazing what people are able to do with pieces of old hardware and a bit (maybe a lot) of time. This video is also a great example of imaginative recycling, even if it’s not the most useful of employments.
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
This handmade epson ink cartridge lamp is made from just that, and it looks wierdly cool. Its fairly expensive if you want one at $200, but so are the cartridges that its made from. Its the second best thing you can do with your empty ink cartridges, the first being sending them in to us to recycle.
Are you sat at home bored, wishing you had something creative to do. Well if you have the Internet and a computer then all your problems are solved. Just go to Paperkraft, this great blog provides you with printable model sheets in the form of a PDF of anything from Pokemon to model cars. All you need is some scissors and some tape to make hundreds of models from just paper. I think I’ll be spending hours on these thing from now on.
I bet that at some point in your life you’ve wondered what would happen if you put an ink cartridge in a microwave. Actually the though probabily has never crossed your mind, but I’m going to show you a video of someone microwaving a cartridge anyway. (Don’t try this at home)
It’s roughly how I imagined what it would look like, a burning plastic mess in a microwave.
Some of you may remember the posts about the two portable printers: The PrintStick and The Stick POP concept. I’m sure one question must have passed through you minds as it did mine at the time, who really needs a printer so much that they need to carry one around with them. But then I saw the following video on youtube and realised that maybe some people do need a printer that much.
At starbucks it not rare to see the odd person working away on a laptop while sipping on a latte, but this guy actually sets up his own printer to print out some photos. What I dont understand is why he went through all that trouble just to print some photos, maybe he doesnt have the internet at home, but he still could have saved the documents on his laptop and printed them at home, or maybe he’s just crazy.
This guy either needs to get himself some office space or a portable printer.
