If you’ve ever sat and envisioned what the stereotypical “hell” was like, chances are fire, all things red, and horns made up most of it. But little did you know, “Hell” also includes HP and Yahoo. Why you say? Ooooh, only because after a few trial runs, HP and Yahoo have somehow come up with the belief that consumers don’t like and in many cases, actually look forward to ads on their printouts. This new advertising scheme only affects web connected printers and scheduled printouts tied to Yahoo’s ad network for now, but as we all know, once a toe is in the door, it can only get wider.
Hop inside for HP’s rationalization and a few key reasons why this isn’t going to work…
Say you want to get a group of kids motivated. How about starting off with the line “Don’t eat sugary snacks, snort coke instead. Ya, not exactly a winner there, is it? In much the same manner of nonsense, the CEO (John Williams) of Domtar — a paper making company — is launching a major campaign this summer geared towards kids. The message: “Put it on paper”…
Why yes, it’s Sunday night and you’re dreading the work week that’s glaring at you ominously. While I can’t offer help to push off the work week, I can offer up a light hearted project to at least pass the time — he USB Ink Cartridge. Once again, Instructables has put together a a short and simple how-to on turning those old ink cartridges of yours into something a little more useful and lasting. Flash drives are becoming as common place as pens and pencils these days, so why not?
Thankfully, this is one of the lowest cost projects you can ever get in to. Almost everyone has a printer (or at least some old printer parts like cartridges) and at least one flash drive that they can sacrifice for the project. So cost withstanding, even time and tools are simple.
A nifty bonus is that paranoid data junkies can even modify the design to have the USB tip retract into the cartridge outright, thereby giving you the ability to remount it inside of a printer. The ultimate disguise. USB flash drive project party. This weekend. My house.
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Like many hobbies, addictions can grow and develop from a small crush to a wide following consuming the minds and actions of wide swaths of people. Techie’s in particular can grow quite attached to gadgets, hardware, software, a tech company, or even characters in techie based products such as video game characters. While at the time, a certain tattoo may seem like a great way to show off your geekiness. However, after the ink settles and you step back look at what you’ve done, one can see the utter chaos that some of bestowed upon their bodies. Come inside for some pictures of the more peculiar and odd tattoos that have graced techies from far and wide that ultimately leave us scratching our heads and asking the question: “What were you thinking?“.
Take all of your other novelty calendars and even functional calendars and throw them in the trash because that is exactly what they are when compared to the world’s coolest calendar, the Ink Calendar. Designed by forward thinking Spanish designer Oscar Diaz, the Ink Calendar brings a whole new level of innovation and sophistication to an otherwise mundane project and duty. The gist behind this time teller is the ability to display the date with nothing but a bottle of ink and 28-31 paper material numbers. A mere bottle of ink placed at one end with an end of the paper dipped inside and a lot of time are all that is needed to show you what day it is. Really it’s so simple yet so cool — the ink getting absorbed into each number easily and reliably tells you the exact day. Pretty cool if you ask me. So who wants 10? *Raises hand*. If you are lucky enough to reside in Madrid, stop on by the Circulo de Bellas Artes and marvel at this truly unique time piece/day keeper, take a picture, and share it with us! Take a minute to stop inside and gander at a few more screenshots of the action in action..
