Little Printer is a product by a London-based design studio, BERG. It is like your own mini-newspaper printing press that uses a technology called BERG cloud, through which it can wirelessly connect to any smartphone.

So, what does this adorable looking printer do?

Well, it prints out grocery store-style receipts of things like your to-do list, birthday reminders from your Google calendar, Foursquare check-ins with your friends, news items from your favorite news site or a crossword puzzle that you can carry around in your pocket all day.




























Little Printer wirelessly hooks up to the box that plugs into your broadband router, it is this box that connects the printer with your smartphone and the news feed that you've subscribed through your phone. The printer then gathers all this information, and prints it only when you hit the 'print' button placed on top of this printer. "You can get deliveries multiple times a day, but we find once or twice works best–like your very own morning or evening newspaper." shares the company website. BERG's launch partners are renowned names like Google, FourSquare, Arup, The Guardian and Nike.

Here's what Matt Web, from BERG has to share about this latest innovation:

"We love physical stuff. Connecting products to the Web lets them become smarter and friendlier – they can sit on a shelf and do a job well, for the whole family or office – without all the attendant complexities of computers, like updates or having to tell them what to do. Little Printer is more like a family member or a colleague than a tool. 

Plus paper is like a screen that never turns off. You can stick to the fridge or tuck it in your wallet. You can scribble on it or tear it and give it to a friend."

Little Printer is equipped with a compact, inkless thermal printer, and can be taken any where that has a power outlet. "Little Printer’s brain isn’t on a chip in its body, but on the Web where it can reach out and touch other Web-enabled services, and where we can provide updates and improvements without you having to install anything." shares Webb.

But the question arises, in this digital age do we really need something that prints? And that though the content that we already have in our phones?

Well, to begin with, I really find this to be an adorable addition to my collection of endless gadgets, that I don't even need at first place. Secondly, I like the idea of instantly printing our tiny pages of fun stuff that I stumble on the internet every now 'n then. Specially, stuff like birthday reminders, that I can stick on my refrigerator, or cute jokes that I can secretly place in my boyfriends' wallet. I can print out recipes on a tiny piece of paper, rather than wasting an entire A4 sheet. I love the idea of printing out a Sudoku game or a crossword puzzle that I can enjoy on a bus-ride.

Here's what Webb has to say about this:

"We love physical stuff. What's great about paper is that it's made for sharing," he explains. "You can scribble on a puzzle and give it to a friend, or stick birthday reminders up on the fridge for your family to see. Paper is basically a technology tailor-made for a home full of people. The act of printing--committing to paper--makes a statement, so you want to be sure that what you print is important."

Personally, I won't give Little Printer a second thought before buying it, in spite of my doubts of seeing Little Printer a gadget of the future. Although, I like the concept of connecting digital media with personal lives that exists outside our smartphones and PCs, but I am not sure how many of us are gonna look at it the same way. Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.





























Little Printer will be available in early 2012. Visit BergCloud.com for further information. And do share your views with us.