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A plastic sticker that records temperatures could soon provide detailed storage histories of crates of food or bottles of vaccine. Printing the energy Thin Film Electronics, based in Oslo, Norway, aim to combine their own printed memory circuits with printed transistors from PARC in Palo Alto, California, plus a printed temperature sensor from PST Sensors, a spin-off from the University of Cape ...
Think you’ve got it tough? Consider Kodak. Down in a hole The 131-year-old pioneer, once known to photographers as the “Great Yellow Father” because of its pre-eminence as a maker of photographic film, has filed for bankruptcy. It has not come as a surprise to business analysts. The company decided in 2003 to dissolve its foundering film business and embarked upon a massive ...
Awards are useless if no one knows about them, aren’t they? OKI Data Americas want us all to know about theirs. OKI printers are built around the parent company’s innovative, digital LED technology and Single Pass Color™ feature, which uses fixed LEDs rather than the familiar, conventional side-to-side scanning laser engine. This means fewer moving parts and a “straight-through” paper ...
3D printers, generally speaking, lay down microfine layers, one at a time, of heated plastic material or resin until they have built up a three-dimensional object according to the design of a 3D modelling program. Most of them, anyway. Printing paper But Mcor Technology of Ireland’s Matrix 3D printer uses a different type of “ink” to build a 3D prototype: Paper. ...
The UK’s biggest online cartridge retailer has released new figures revealing what amount of paper would be needed if you were to print all of the statuses on Facebook. New figures from the UK’s biggest online cartridge retailer have revealed what would happen if all Facebook status updates were to be printed. In order to find out, www.Cartridgesave.co.uk conducted ...
Four new colour laser printers are here from Brother, and the company is promoting them with one promise: speed. Brother Industries, Ltd., of Nagoya, Japan, one of the giants of the printer industry, has targeted small office environments in the hopes that these cost and efficiency-minded buyers are keen on printing in full colour, and in a hurry. The company’s U.S. ...
The Consumer Electronics Show has just closed in Las Vegas, and one of the stars, appearing in many guises across the exhibit halls, was the 3D printer. Again. Haven’t we been here before? This has been going on now for nearly twenty years. 3D printing is like the video telephone, which publicly premiered at the 1967 World’s Fair in New York and ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois have come up with a remarkable new ink based upon a surprising material — silver. New solutions The study, just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, details the new ink, which is based upon a solution of silver and ammonia. This type of ink is a liquid at room temperature. It is made ...
Whitehouse Enterprises, which helps people with disabilities, asks home office workers and businesses to recycle their used printer cartridges at nine sites in and around Bury St. Edmunds. The innovative scheme, initiated by Whitehouse subsidiary Eco Services Digital, asks people to recycle their spent cartridges at nine sites in and around Bury St Edmunds. This will help acheive two noteworthy goals: ...
3D printing — building up a physical object from a digital description with a “printer” — might be moving one step closer to the average household, thanks to American technology company 3D Systems of Rock Hill, South Carolina. New hardware The company assure us that they will soon be selling their new Cube 3D printer on the retail market. Priced at $1299 ...