New Gadgets

Every now and then something comes along that wows you with its practicality, something that just feels right. Something that makes so much sense, you have to wonder how it took so long for someone to come up with it in the first place.

The Document Extractor, brainchild of  Byeong Min Choe, marries your printer, scanner and monitor into one potentially perfect device. The monitor, has a touch screen interface that allows you to select and crop the area of the page you wish to print, and the selected area will print from the back to the front of the device, dropping from your computer screen into reality.

Scanning is a similar process in which the user is able to feed the document to be scanned up into the device and Voila! It appears on your display as if you just feed it up behind the screen. The designer reminds us that the Document Extractor is not simply a space saving device, it will also save us time and resources, like ink and toner.

Whatever the benefits of such a device may be to you, we can only hope that someone will actually step up to the plate and create one of these that we can actually buy.

Inventors of gadgets do not know any limits. This can be proved by the printer which doesn’t print with ink or powder, but with … coffee!

It turns out that coffee is not only an invigorating drink, but can also be used as an ink for printing on paper by a special printer.

Coffee grounds are used instead of the usual ink in a new gadget-printer RITI, developed by Joen Hwan Ju. Yes, coffee grounds are suitable not only for divination but also for printing. Now there is no need to dispose the remains of morning coffee, but … to tuck your printer!

The principle of this gadget is as follows: the filter with coffee is removed from the coffee maker, and is placed inside the cartridge of the printer with a small amount of water.

During the printing cartridge is moved, as usual, from side to side, leaving the print on paper.

It remains a mystery how long a print will retain its properties. This is the most environmentally friendly way to print; now you can drink coffee without any waste.