Microprinter has a posse

One of the coolest things I saw when I was at PaperCamp was Tom’s microprinter:

…an experiment in physical activity streams and notification, using a repurposed receipt printer connected to the web.

Now there’s a wiki where people—like Roo Reynolds—can come together and share their experiments in microprinting:

Hackers across the country are buying up old old receipt printers and imaginatively repurposing them into something new.

It’s such a great little step on the way to a Web of Things. Here’s another such step, from Fluid Interfaces, built for less than $350 using a webcam, a 3M projector, a mirror and a mobile phone:

Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.

Sounds like a way of levelling up in the game of being Matt Jones:

He sees mobile as something of a super power device and described something he calls “bionic noticing” - obsessively recording curious things he sees around him, driven by this multi-capable device in his pocket.

Have you published a response to this? :

Previously on this day

13 years ago I wrote Web Directions North, day one

Good talks, good people.

14 years ago I wrote Panel discussion at The Future Of Web Apps summit

Apparently, there’s going to be a big announcement from Feedburner.

14 years ago I wrote Steffen Meschkat at The Future Of Web Apps summit

The Googleman talks Ajax.

14 years ago I wrote Ryan Carson at The Future Of Web Apps summit

Ryan talks about Dropsend and building web apps on a budget.

14 years ago I wrote Andrew Shorten at The Future Of Web Apps summit

The man from Adobe pimps Flex.

14 years ago I wrote Shaun Inman at The Future Of Web Apps summit

The Wolf talks about minty APIs.

14 years ago I wrote David Heinemeier Hansson at The Future Of Web Apps summit

The creator of Rails gets geeky.

14 years ago I wrote Tom Coates at The Future Of Web Apps summit

The blogger recently acquired by Yahoo! talks about Web 2.0

14 years ago I wrote Cal Henderson at The Future Of Web Apps summit

Cal talks about the lessons of Flickr.

14 years ago I wrote Joshua Schachter at The Future Of Web Apps summit

A running commentary on the talk from the founder of del.icio.us

18 years ago I wrote Axis of Just As Evil

From SatireWire: "Libya, China, Syria form axis of Just As Evil".

18 years ago I wrote Patently Absurd

Here’s a great article by science writer, James Gleick on the ludicrous mess that is the US Patent Office: "Patently Absurd".