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.
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.
HP have been one of the leaders in the printer industry for years, and with the help of Stratasy they are taking their products to a whole new level with 3D printers.
HP and Stratasys have made plans to release 3D printers later this year, but don’t get too exited about having your own 3D printer on your desk at home as they are currently only used by large companies and even though the two companies will be introducing the system into the ‘mainstream’, you would still be looking at anything from $15.000 upwards to buy one.
Although HP and Stratasys will be the ones to introduce 3D printers to the mainstream, these devices have been around since around 1986. So the technology is far from new, it just shows you how slow technology can advance sometimes.
This type of printer work by either building up layers of fine powder (usually plaster or resins), feeding liquids through a printhead to build up layers or in this case use fused deposition modeling that uses a nozzle to deposit molten plastic layer by layer eventually forming a 3D model.
Although these machines currently cost a fortune some companies (makerbot.com) will supply a DIY kit so you can build one yourself for under £1000.
