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I’ve known of many people, especially those in love, getting used to making a copy of their SMS and IM messages as the commemorative. But that really costs them too much time, unless they’ve gotten the “BlackBox”. It provides a convenient and easy solution for people to keep their valuable messages on hand, printing SMS and IM messages out via a standard, noncarbon receipt printing system. It can even print a message twice so that the user can share that conversation with others.

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Your Little Printer, unveiled by the Berg, is a smart portable printer that helps you to print out simple content. It can get connected to your cellphones, gathering the information sent out from your mobile and printing the pictures, puzzles, coupons and other stuff out. Well, I’ve already seen the happy days of printing out coupons and using them anytime and anywhere, but pity that the tiny printer won’t be available until sometime in 2012.

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No doubt we people are selfish to some degree, because we really want everything belonging to us is exclusive, never the same as others’. ‘Artist’ Phone Case Printer, exhibited on ‘The Korea International Sign&Design Show (KOSIGN 2011)’, is rightly a device that prints out our own cellphone cases. It’s similar to ‘Photo sticker machine’, printing out your favorite pictures on a leather or silicon case within two or three minutes.

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Well, seemingly we’re really in deep love of products from the Apple Company or those designed for the Apple, coz we’ve been focusing on the iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc for quite a continuous period. Here comes something for the iPhone too. It is a portable printer that can print out prints 4×6 photos with crystal-clear 300 dpi resolution directly from a docked iPhone or iPod touch. The new printer is easy to use, and can be controlled via a free downloadable app. Just imagine that any time you shot a photo, you can print it out almost at the same time, isn’t that great?

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See What You Print (SWYP) is a sleek concept by Artefact, which is designed to give the printers a new great change. The SWYP combines with a simple stylish appearance and a fantastic user interface, which have made us think of products from Apple. Once wirelessly connected to your cameras or computers, the printer will then allow you to choose and edit your photos with its multi-touch screen. The image on the screen is exactly the photo you will finally get, and that’s also why the printer is named “See What You Print”.

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With 3D technology processing by big steps, now 3D printers can manufacture many more amazing things than we can imagine, from toys, swimwear, food and even artificial blood vessels.

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Wanna to experience any modern but comfortable ways of cooking? Have a look at this 3D Food Printer. It utilizes an electronic blueprint system called “FabApps” that not only allows people to print out their food but also to design something with their imagination. All the “ink” this printer uses is edible, including melted chocolate, cheese or cookie dough. Once the users draw up the food’s design on a computer, the blueprint will then show the printer what goes where, and finally builds up your food with prepared materials. It is said that the 3D printer would soon be launched to market, helping both families and restaurants to customize interesting and healthier dishes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Epson’s new photo printer comes with a retro appearance design which seems to have drawn its inspiration from old computers once popular in 1970s or 1990s, but actually also features some modern technology as it is built with a wireless keyboard and a remote controller. However, the real element that makes the printer special is that the device prints out photos and postcards without needing to be connected to a computer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Those who have been wading through stacks of bikini for their most-satisfying one would soon finish that boring work with the world’s first 3D bikini printer. Created by Continuum Fashion, this revolutionary device can print out ready-to-wear bikini with a material called Nylon 12, which is soft and endurable. Also, it’s comfortable to wear, easy to clean and feels to be quite refreshed when wet through. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Quite a long time after laptop computers were created, we finally see a printer that also features a simple book shape. It’s super compact, measuring 50 X 257 X 182 mm so that you can easily take it anywhere. Even better, the Book Printer can be connected to other devices via Bluetooth and therefore allowing you to have files saved in cellphones or iPads printed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For so long a time we’ve been dreaming of a TV set that lets us smell the delicious foods when we see them on the screens, however it’s still a dream nowadays. But good news is that we can at least own a printer that lets us smell the foods on the pictures now. The amazing printer is a collaborative work by Japanese scientists from Keio University, who developed an innovative technology that can print smells using a modified ink-jet printer. Therefore next time you see an apple, you can catch the sweet aroma of the apple too. Isn’t that fantastic? I even couldn’t wait to have a try with the Smells Printer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

3D technology is an important emerging technique developed quickly during the past few years and it has been widely applied in the fields of advertising, furniture and electronics. And recently, three designers have even collaborated with a new 3D printer that can spit out fabric structures for clothing. When three-dimensional body data is fed into the computer, certain software will then start to work and have the printer produce fabric structures, just as what you can see from the video below. On the other hand, the new technology will also result in great changes, such as much better efficiency, less needed labor and various customized fabric structures. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Spanish design consultancy Zanadesign has created the Sand Printer spelling messages on the beach, as an important part of your summer holiday. The printer is a huge wheel, which will leave behind messages like ‘HELP’ or ‘World Cup 2010′ as you roll it along the beach. Apart from providing recreational activities for people on the sandy beach, the Sand Printer is also supposed to re-educate the people of Spain (at least those on the beach) about the importance of the country’s Constitution of 1812. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Transforming digital 3D images directly into physical objects will soon be possible, according to HP, which plans to market its new line of rapid prototyping printers in Europe next month. Manufactured by Stratasys, the 3D printers are based on the fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology, which would transform the 3D images into 3D objects by extruding ABS plastic in thin layers and stacking them together. Interested in the printers? Check out the video here or the website after the break for more details. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What if the kids love all kinds of food? Mhmm… I guess the parents would thank the God again and again…But they should also feel grateful to Philips Design, for the Food Creation Concept they’ve come up with. The concept is intended for giving each kind of food a new look, by mixing various edible ingredients together and ‘printing’ them out in your kids’ desired shape and consistency. For example, carrots could be served as foam and broccoli as ice cream. On the other hand, it also presents the physical/chemical processes (which happen while cooking) in an artistic and modern way. [Read the rest of this entry...]