Printers

This Tiny Thermal Printer Turns Anything On Your Phone Into a Sticky Note

If you can’t stay organized or remember your to-do list without a myriad of sticky notes plastered around your computer’s screen, this new compact printer makes it easy to turn messages, photos, screenshots, and basically anything on your phone into a tiny square of paper you can stick or share. Mangoslab’s nemonic isn’t exactly a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5

How to Turn Your Dumb Printer Into a Cloud Printer

Google runs a Cloud Print service that can make any printer, internet-enabled or not, accessible from over the web. If there’s a printer you need to get at from anywhere, whether on a computer, tablet or phone, here’s how to get it set up. A lot of modern printers come with Google Cloud Print built…

Gadgets David Nield Dec 19

Xerox Made an Inkjet That Can Print On Anything

Your standard inkjet printer can mostly handle paper, occasionally transparencies, and maybe even blank DVDs while they were still a thing. But Xerox just revealed a towering machine it calls the Direct to Object Inkjet Printer because that’s exactly what it does—it prints on almost any 3D object. What makes the Direct to Object printer…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 31

You Can Now Print 3D Holograms on Your Inkjet Printer

Creating the types of 3D holograms that are used to authenticate products or currency usually requires very expensive, very complex printers. That’s what makes them so hard to counterfeit. But a team of researchers from MIT have created a new kind of 3D hologram that can be printed on the inkjet printer you probably already…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 3

How to Easily Hack a Smartphone With an Inkjet Printer and Conductive Ink

Think all your secrets are safely tucked away on your smartphone just because only your fingerprint can unlock it? Watch researchers from Michigan State University compromise a biometric fingerprint sensor with nothing more than a scanner, an off-the-shelf inkjet printer, and readily available conductive ink. The hack is, of course, dependent on someone digitizing a…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski Mar 7

This Ingenious Printer Recycles Scrap Paper Into New Paper Right in Your Office

This is PaperLab: Epson says it’s the world’s first recycling system to take waste paper and instantly transform it into new paper—onsite, in your office. The Japanese company claims that the device can churn those reams of shredded paper in your cubicle’s overflowing recycle bin into brand new, crisp, white sheets, without using water. This…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Dec 2

This Zombie Printer Was Hacked To Broadcast Radio Waves

All electronic devicesemit radio waves when they’re powered on, even if they don’t connect to the internet or Bluetooth. Governments have been using these accidental waves to spy on each other since the 1960s—but this week, a computer scientist at the Black Hat hacker conference took the idea way further than we’d thought possible. If…

Privacy & Security Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 6

The All-Lego Bricasso Printer Creates Mosaics Using Just Your Bricks

We’ve featured Jason Allemann’s Lego creations before, but this time he’s outdone himself with an all-Lego printer called the Bricasso. It uses Mindstorms EV3 to first scan a mosaic pattern you’ve drawn on paper, and then reproduce it using actual Lego pieces. The Bricasso only works with 1×1 plates, which is the maximum resolution a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 29

This Coffee Art Printer Puts Baristas To Shame

Some lovely art atop your latte’s foam: a perk of frequenting a fancy cafe. But a new machine called the Ripple promises to make it commonplace at any coffee shop—and the foam can spell out any message you like! The $1,000 machine, which includes a minimum $75/month service subscription, probably isn’t going to appeal to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jun 26

An Inkless Printer Makes Color Images With Tiny Microscopic Holes

Considering printer ink costs more than booze and even human blood, it’s no surprise everyone’s on the hunt for a cheaper alternative. And that includes researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology who’ve created an inkless printer that works by perforating special paper with thousands of microscopic holes. There’s a catch, though. You…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 19

This Printer Churns Out Complex Double-Layered Circuit Boards

3D printers are well on their way to eventually creating perfect replicas of almost any object we can imagine, as long as they don’t rely on any electronics inside to function. But devices like the new Voltera, a printer that churns out prototypes of complex dual-layer circuit boards, is a sign that this won’t always…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 10

This Printer Spits Out Messages That Actually Ignite and Self-Destruct

With a new data breach revealed every week, is it possible to safely share anything these days? Even passing notes in class risks a teacher intervention, unless you can smuggle this printer in your backpack. Clearly inspired by Mission Impossible, the messages it prints actually physically self-destruct just moments after leaving the machine, ensuring your…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 15

How to Hack an Inkjet to Print Custom-Colored Makeup

After graduating from Harvard, Grace Choi decided that she wanted to target the makeup industry with a low-cost device that would actually let consumers simply print their own. And while she’s working on perfecting (and raising the needed funding) to put her Mink printer into production, she’s created a tutorial on how to hack a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 22

A Robotic 3D Printer Could Print Anything, Anywhere It Wants

3D printers are far from a perfect technology at this point, but one of their most glaring issues is that their printing capacity is limited to the size of the machines. The print head on a 3D printer can only travel so far, which is why moving it onto a wheeled platform that’s completely mobile…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 17

A Hacker Turned This Printer Into a Doom Machine

No one really likes them, but printers are actually more sophisticated than you might give them credit for. Given the right circumstances, hackers can take advantage of those guts. One recently did just that with a classic hack that never gets old: Make it run Doom. British hacker Michael Jordon recently cracked the encryption in…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 15

Xerox’s Robot Printer Brings Your Documents Right To You

The one advantage to the paperless office being nowhere in sight is that every time you print something you get to leave your desk and waste time while wandering over to the copy room. At least until Fuji Xerox’s robot printer concept that delivers printed documents right to your desk becomes commonplace. Thanks to an…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 26

A Tiny Printer That Spits Out Whatever’s on Your iPhone’s Screen

A smartphone in your hand can replace a wallet full of paper notes and receipts, but there are still times when a printed copy of what’s on your phone can be handy; whether it be for sharing a map with someone, or following an online recipe without getting your device dirty. And that’s exactly why…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 1

This All-In-One Printer Churns Out Completely Functional Circuit Boards

Prototyping a new device without a factory at your disposal is as time consuming as it is expensive. Unless the crowd-funded Squink printer manages to become a reality. It lets hobbyists and aspiring Wozniaks print their own functional circuit boards using conductive ink and glue, for almost immediate turnarounds when they make revisions to a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jul 21

How to Print From Anywhere

Americans just aren’t printing as much as we used to. Where once we’d churn out driving directions, movie tickets, or school reports, these documents almost always stay in the digital domain. But for those occasions that you do need to print something, here’s how to make sure you can do it from anywhere, without a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 21

You Won’t Know What’s Real Or What’s Fake In This Baffling Printer Ad

Apparently the best way to sell printers isn’t by boasting about its features, color fidelity, or DPI. It’s by blowing our minds with a bunch of optical illusions that leave us wondering if anything in our lives is actually real, or just a printed ruse. Canon created the ad to hawk its PIXUS printers in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 10

This Tiny Thermal Printer Turns Anything On Your Phone Into a Sticky Note

How to Turn Your Dumb Printer Into a Cloud Printer

Xerox Made an Inkjet That Can Print On Anything

You Can Now Print 3D Holograms on Your Inkjet Printer

How to Easily Hack a Smartphone With an Inkjet Printer and Conductive Ink

This Ingenious Printer Recycles Scrap Paper Into New Paper Right in Your Office

This Zombie Printer Was Hacked To Broadcast Radio Waves

The All-Lego Bricasso Printer Creates Mosaics Using Just Your Bricks

This Coffee Art Printer Puts Baristas To Shame

An Inkless Printer Makes Color Images With Tiny Microscopic Holes

This Printer Churns Out Complex Double-Layered Circuit Boards

This Printer Spits Out Messages That Actually Ignite and Self-Destruct

How to Hack an Inkjet to Print Custom-Colored Makeup

A Robotic 3D Printer Could Print Anything, Anywhere It Wants

A Hacker Turned This Printer Into a Doom Machine

Xerox’s Robot Printer Brings Your Documents Right To You

A Tiny Printer That Spits Out Whatever’s on Your iPhone’s Screen

This All-In-One Printer Churns Out Completely Functional Circuit Boards

How to Print From Anywhere

You Won’t Know What’s Real Or What’s Fake In This Baffling Printer Ad

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