Gizmodo
Canon's new dye-sublimation photo printer is a departure from the boring old box designs: it's basically a bucket, and is aimed at kids. The bucket part unclips, and is supposed to store wires and accessories rather than sand and a collection of worms. The printer itself is designed for easy operation, with big buttons, a 2.5-inch TFT and accepting all varieties of SD card, MMC and MemoryStick and xD too.
Printing is at 300 x 300 dpi color with 256 hues per color, and up to borderless postcard-size photos—an L-size (4.7 x 3.5-inch) printout takes around 43 seconds. The printer has an option to recognize faces in the imagery and optimize the print and background around them, and even does automatic red-eye correction. Connectivity is USB and IR, with support for the direct camera connection PictBridge, and there's also an optional battery pack.
When we were kids we just used our Polaroids for instant photos, but since today's kids have to haul a printer around along with their digital camera, then this design is pretty neat. Available June 15th, in Japan at first, for around $150. [AV Watch]
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This is just adorable, perhaps they will add a crayon effect to the box to really give it that KID feeling
Great.
It's in a bucket so the kid can carry it into the house.
Mom and Dad are still stuck setting up a new printer.
Yay?
See, to me, it gives me the idea that after it prints out whatever, it turns around and shreds it.
If its for kids, why does it have parts that can be lost? Kids lose parts the first time they use anything. They just do.
If it's for kids, why doesn't it have any plastic bags or choking hazards.
I think that a great way to make a quick buck would be to take out a life insurance policy on your toddler and them give them access to light sockets, open windows, those 1x2 LEGO blocks, and bleach.
The average parent of a toddler has less than 4 years invested in their brat. Make that investment pay off. Besides, you can always make more (unless you're over 40).
i strongly think that this is geared more towards the "kids" that are almost in nursing homes.
i, for one, am sick and tired of setting up new "toys" for my parents.
and to think I use to have a bucket and went to the beach... now I have a bucket and go to the office. Awesome.
Seems like an interesting idea until they use the bucket at the beach to make sand castles.
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I'll let the lolrus speak for me...
Am I missing something, here?
They're talking about dye-sub printer here and it's [only] $150.
Can it be?
How much sand can it hold and does that mess up the printing?
Can it print photos from PhotoBucket.com?
@unggit: Where have you been? Yes, dye sub printers are a lot cheaper to buy now -- Kodak even has one for $80 retail. They can still nail you on replenishables though, because there is absolutely no way you're going to get them third party.
playdoh.
can it handle playdoh?
and sand and that amazing sticky compound?
Sounds like the perfect way to nail someone on consumables. Especially the kid crowd who know little about not printing every photo they take...
Who was the design consultant on this-Homer Simpson??
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