I have spent a good chunk of my nerd energy, or nerdegy, ridding my life of paper. So it is with mixed feeling that I write about Berg's Little Printer, which combines "dead tree" and "cute" in equal measure.
The Little Printer is a web-connected thermal printer – think "store receipts" and you have the right idea. You configure it from your phone, and a couple times a day (at times you choose) it spits out a long strip containing all of your most recent updates.
Thus you could have it pull headlines from your favorite news sources, crossword puzzles, Twitter updates and even your daily appointments from the cloud and render them in paper form.
It's certainly a nice gimmick, but I can't help but think that if I have a smartphone with me, I have a screen that can do all of this and more. Still, it could be useful for shopping lists and airline boarding passes.
The Little Printer will start to ship next year, whereupon many of our slightly aging UK readers will doubtless start to get a feeling of nostalgic dread. Yes, I'm talking about the Sinclair Thermal Printer.
Little Printer product page [Berg via Jon Fingas]
