Etiqueta: newspaper

Hello little printer

BERG bills itself as a design consultancy, but according to CEO Matt Webb, it’s really a product company. And today the London-based innovators (who’ve made invisible-ink comics, augmented reality toys, holographic iPad light paintings, and a visual volume knob for Twitter) are announcing a product–in the works for a year–that shows just how committed to building the future of interfaces, media, and digital connectivity they really are

And it’s a printer. (A “Little Printer,” to be exact.) This is the future?…

Hello Little Printer, available 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.

BERG is betting on it. When Webb gave Co.Design an exclusive preview of Little Printer last week (“You’re, like, the thirteenth person on earth to see this,” he said in Skype conversation from London), he was visibly giddy. “We’re sick of not telling everyone about this, so we’ve just decided to tell everyone,” he explained, grinning. Little Printer is exactly that: a palm-sized, cube-shaped, cloud-powered thermal printer with an adorable pair of feet and a cute face. And what does it print? A personalized mini-newspaper–with content curated from partners like The Guardian, social media like Foursquare and Facebook, as well as stuff created by BERG itself–and output on a receipt-like paper strip no longer than 10 inches. “Each information source we think of as a personalised ‘publication’ that you subscribe to from a kind of ‘app store for paper,’ collated into a delivery that arrives at a chosen time,” Webb tells Co.Design. You “feed” Little Printer by selecting content via a remote-control-esque smartphone app, and then get your mini-newspaper delivered “once or twice a day.” Think of it like Flipboard, but without the screen…

http://bit.ly/rVwTr2

Hello little printer

NY timelapse

(Boing Boing) – Set to music by Justice, this time lapse video by @phillmv of the New York Times‘ homepage covers stories, pics and otherstuff from September 2010 to July 2011.

Due to a technical error, you can only see the full 7 minutes if you stick to 480p. Many apologies.

Timelapse of nytimes.com from September 2010 to July 2011. Music: Justice – Planisphère, part 1

http://youtu.be/sCKGOiauJCE

NY timelapse

The next 100 years

Una publicación de 1900, sobre cómo sería el mundo dentro de un siglo (es decir, en 2001). O al menos así es como se lo imaginaron.
No se si sorprende más lo que es acertado o lo que resultó ser diametralmente opuesto a lo que se esperaba, como en la cuestión de los automoviles. Va la liga y resumo ideas principales…

‘What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years’ c.1900

– Five hunderd million people (population)
– The American will be taller
– There will be no C, X or Q (in everyday alphabet)
– Hot and cold air from Spigols in houses
– No mosquitos nor flies
– Ready-cooked meals will be bought
– No foods will be exposed (in streets)
– Coal will not be used for heating or cooking
– There will be no street cars in our large cities
– Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance
– Trains will run 150 miles an hour
– Automobiles chear than horses
– Everybody will walk ten miles (excercise will be compulsory)
– To England in two days by ship
– There will be Commercial Air-ships (airplanes)
– Aerial War-ships and Forts on wheels
– No wild big animals (in human environment)
– Man wil see around the world (webcams)
– Telephones around the world (network communications)
– Grand opera will be telephoned (media broadcasting)
– How children will be taught (free education)
– Store purchases by Tube (TV marketing, e-commerce)
– Vegetables grown by electricity
– Oranges will grow in Philadelphia
– Strawberries as large as apples
– Peas as large as beels
– Black, blue andd green Roses
– Few drugs will be swallowed

http://t.co/dn4MfbD

The next 100 years