The manufacturer of instant photography, Polaroid has filed for bankruptcy. No! It’s not the recession which will probably be the first thought on all our minds; it’s fraud instead. The culprit behind the company’s potential downfall is the one of its founders, Tom Petters. Petters is charged with over twenty criminal cases including mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. ...
HP has been a leader, officially and unofficially for a long time, and the brand that comes to one’s mind at the utterance of the word ‘printer’ is HP. We have learnt that the Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers report that gets published by analyst firm, Gartner Inc has named HP in the leader’s quadrant. This is an achievement ...
Printer jams are an inherent unpopular feature of all printers. These jams could be caused due to various reasons ranging from the mal-design of the printer to the composition of the paper itself. Well, a man in Australia discovered yet another reason for the paper jam and the source was neither the printer nor the paper; to his horror, it ...
Earlier this year, there was an uproar followed by hue and cry across borders regarding a study conducted by Queensland University that showed laser printers emitted clouds of toner particles which was assumed to be potentially dangerous to humans; especially the ones seated close by. A team of German scientists have squashed the theory altogether stating that the emitted particles ...
Around two years back, there were reports emerging from China which stated that laptops as cheap as £50 would be out in the market pretty soon. It has taken over two years to witness a new laptop, a tiny laptop or a netbook at £50 from the very same country. Hong Kong based Jointech recently launched its J-PRO mini laptop JL7100. ...
It’s true that many of us believe that laser printers are ideally suited for offices owing to the sheer volume of monochrome prints, and inkjets for homes for the same reason. But, HP is on a path to vanquish this notion and promote HP inkjet printers for office use with the Officejet / Officejet Pro line of printers. Bret Bottger, an ...
The waste collection of paper program in the UK is one of the firsts in the European Union, but is facing harsh criticism by commercial printers around the country. The new rule states that all paper wastes from households and businesses must be recycled without any exceptions. The recycling program ensures that the paper wastes from households are collected on a ...
World’s most awaited operating system, Windows 7, is the latest craze in the cyber world and millions of users around the world are downloading it and a fraction of them seeding it. Popular torrent sites such as Mininova and Pirate Bay have close to 10,000 users seeding the 32 and 64 bits of Windows 7 build 6801. A pre-beta version was ...
Remember that scene in Minority Report, where newspapers could change their covers electronically to keep you informed of the latest news? Well a couple of months ago Esquire mens' magazine told the world they had tested a similar technology on a prototype edition to celebrate 75 years of bronzed ladies and gadgets. It hit the shelves in September and ...
We follow the advances in printing technology pretty closely; we've even seen inkjet printing principles build concrete houses, but nothing comes close to what Makota Nakamura has turned been working on. He had made significant steps towards using inkjet technology to print human cells into a 3D structure, and hopes eventually to be able to print human hearts as replacements for ...