Let’s face it – Twitter is the digital fortune cookie. You have 140 characters to say something interesting and informative, but typical tweets are more along the lines of “Dance like no one is watching” or “Just saw Twilight – OMG Edward is sooo [...]

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If you can build houses out of recycled ink cartridges, why not make an eco-friendly bike path? According to Inhabitat.com, that’s exactly what developers have done at the West MacDonnell National Park in Australia, where a new bike path has been made with recycled [...]

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Like a lot of pre-teen kids, I used to play with Legos, but they weren’t my favorite toy. I didn’t have the patience to sit down for more than 10 minutes and build something interesting, and I didn’t like having to clean up afterwards. [...]

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Remember when we told you that Memjet printers were more hype than substance? It took a couple of years, but the widely publicized technology with the pagewide printhead is finally ready to be released. There’s a catch though – if you were anticipating home [...]

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When it comes to printer ink and toner, high prices for OEM cartridges are like taxes – we complain, but we pay them anyway. So it’s interesting to read the Wall Street Journal blog post about HP’s Thom Brown giving a media presentation to [...]

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A few years ago, I had to use the men’s room at a bar in lower Manhattan. As I was about to wash my hands at the faucet, I turned my head up to look into the mirror, only to find there wasn’t one. [...]

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With the advent of mobile phone printing apps from HP, Canon and Kodak, it’s no surprise to see that Ricoh has recently released a HotSpot app for BlackBerry Smartphones. HotSpot enables mobile businesspeople to access emails and webpages on their phone or web-connected laptop, [...]

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Fresh off its recent acquisition of Palm, HP has announced that it will be integrating Palm’s webOS operating system into its touchscreen web printers. It’s unclear whether you’ll be able to install webOS onto HP’s existing web-connected touchscreen printers, or if HP will come [...]

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To use a certain printer on a computer with a traditional OS like Windows, you need to install printer-specific drivers. And that’s not a big deal, because they’re either pre-installed on your OS, or you can get them online or through the OEM. But [...]

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With the advent of laws like the ADA, you see more and more public and private facilities becoming accessible to the disabled. But consumer products built for the disabled are harder to find, unless you’re actively looking for them. Braille printers aren’t exactly new, [...]

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