Cool Inventions: World’s Smallest Mobile Printer
Saturday, March 26th, 2005 at 2:55 pm in Gadgets
A Swedish company, PrintDreams, the developer of Random Movement Printing Technology (RMPT), today has announced the release of PrintBrush, the world’s smallest and only fully format-independent printer.
The printer has the length of a normal ball-point pen while its width and height are more or less equivalent to the width of a modern mobile phone. The total volume is less than 300 c.c. and weights around 350 grams. This first version of PrintBrush was designed to fit into a shirt pocket.
Internet content, SMS, pictures and other information is downloaded to the PrintBrush from PDAs, mobile phones and laptop computers via a Bluetooth wireless link. Then, by following the RMPT principle the device is hand operated by sweeping it across any type of print media, no matter what its shape, size or thickness. The printout will then start to appear right behind the sweeps. The device takes into account all the parameters of the hand movement, including rotation and sudden changes of speed and acceleration. The resulting image on the printed media is very much like its digital counterpart.
Traditional printers are dependent on accurate linear movements and paper-feeding mechanisms.
PrintDream’s Random Movement Printing Technology (RMPT) translates random motion (hand movements) into high quality text or image print outs.
May 4th, 2007 at 3:34 am
So Cool