Ink-free Wireless Smartphone Photo Printer costs $220, works with Android and iOS devices

How often do you find yourself reaching into your pocket for your phone to take a few spontaneous shots with its camera? I for one am a regular user of my phone’s camera for those opportunities that encourage a quick snap or two. But fun and conveniency doesn’t exactly spring to mind when it comes to printing these photos. Until now.

Hammacher Schlemmer, infamous for their rather bizarre range of products that often come with a hefty price tag, have unveiled a new electronic product designed to pair with Android and iOS smartphones alike and print photos wirelessly via a WiFi hotspot.

But what makes this product so different from the rest? Well, the perk here is that the printer uses no ink, but instead prints onto special patented paper that’s embedded with yellow, magenta and cyan dye crystals.

The convenient nature of this product means its users can bring physical photographs back to life, without the intrusion of pesky cables, or having to upload your photos to your PC prior to printing them off onto bog standard printing paper.

The downside of the device is that it costs $219.95 and it comes with a cartridge ready to offer you just 10 prints. Additional cartridges are available at $24.95 a pop.

Will you be investing in Hammacher Schlemmer’s new Wireless Smartphone Printer? Let us know in the comments!

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The refined Pencil Printer part II comes with detailed explanations and a better understand of saving the environment from paper trash and permanency of Ink! In here we see how the lead shavings feed the cartridge toner and prints effortlessly on paper. Mistakes are easily erased, and once the crappy memo is done with…you can erase all the gibberish and re-use the paper. A true test of erasing skills! Designers: Hoyoung Lee, Seunghwa Jeong & Jin-young Yoon

   

Multitouch Monitor and built in Printer and Scanner

Having a computer plus a printer and a scanner, a workspace much space. While there are multifunction printers that save some space, we can still improve a little more. Or so he thinks Byeong Min Choe, designer of the “Document Extractor”, a concept of monitor.

The grace of the Document Extractor is that it is multi-touch and also has a built-in printer and a scanner. For example, viewing a document, you need to print. To print and send it leaves the screen. If you need to print a photo, you can cut it with the multi-touch panel and print it on the same monitor.

The slot where they exit the insert also serves to impress sheets or photos you’d like scanner. As does the process, the images are up on the screen.

So far, the Document Extractor does not pass beyond the concept although it has generated much interest. It certainly looks like a very interesting product; hope so that someday can be sold. Designer: Byeong Min Choe